"If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't"

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Jonathon Porritt

#Future Quotes #Mean Quotes #Vision Quotes

“To me, nothing tastes more like summer than peach pie. I began collecting pie recipes from friends and family while I was still working on my first draft. As the recipes poured in, it was fun to try to match the pies to the characters in the book.”
“A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't need and adds those three inches I do.”
“The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.”
“I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”
“Do what you feel is right and back yourself up. Live the life you want to live.”
“Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.106, New Directions Publishing
“No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do”
“If slaughter houses had glass walls, would we even be having this debate?”

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