"Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide."

-- Lester R. Brown

#Aquifers Quotes #Land Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“Daniel! Luce said. He looks-Different and also precisely the same? Bill asked.Yes.That's his soul you recognize. Regardless of how you two may look on the outside, you'll alwaysknow each other's souls.It hadn't occurred to Luce until now how remarkable it was that she recognized Daniel in every life.Her soul found his. That's ... beautiful.”
“A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.”

Source : George William Russell (1920). “The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government”
“By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.”
“The mind is always the patsy of the heart.”
“What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?”
“The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.”
“... sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing...”
“Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.”

Source : Interview With Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 26, 1999.

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