"Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores."

-- Van Jones

#People Quotes #Community Quotes #Village Quotes

“You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.”
“My apartment looks like no one lives in it.”
“We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.”
“Those who live passionately teach us how to love. Those who love passionately teach us how to live.”
“Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.”
“Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card”

Source : "Why You Lose at Chess". Book by Fred Reinfeld (p. 180), 1956.
“Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through.”
“What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.”

Source : "Kal Penn–From Hollywood to the White House and back to the big screen". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. November 6, 2011.

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