"Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray."

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Nancy Spain

“I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want to see happen rather than trying to force a particular set of outcomes.”

Source : "Author Toby Hemenway believes permaculture could move us beyond 'sustainability'". Interview with Heather Shayne Blakeslee, www.gridphilly.com. October 1, 2015.
“I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake”
“My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.”
“We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.”

Source : Jean-Bertrand Aristide (2000). “Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization”
“The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.”

Source : "Close-up : I'm Looking for a Market for Wisdom. Leo Szilard, Scientist". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 75, September 01, 1961.
“There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.”
“The thing about the truth is that it exists outside of belief. Even if nobody believes it, that thing is still true.”
“I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets”

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