“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”
- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
wayne stephen
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" Conviction without experience makes for harshness . " - Flannery O'Connor
Ken Peavey
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Try a hundred things, 2 will work out and you never know in advance which 2.
-Paul Wheaton, Podcast 248
wayne stephen
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If humans were to vanish from the planet life would easily regain its composure and carry on . If insects were to vanish , even just bees , life would have to come up with a new gameplan .
wayne stephen
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" Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism . It is not the conviction that something will turn out well , but the certainty that something makes sense , regardless of how it turns out . " - Vaclav Havel
Ken Peavey
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Every day I see the spark of Excellence shining like a beacon in the darkness.
There is more going on in these forums than talk about plants, and chickens and winter heating. There are Dreams being cast, wishes being made, and people striving to become better than they are.
More than anything else, this site is about Hope.
wayne stephen
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" Dear future generations : Please accept our apologies . We were rolling drunk on petroleum . " - Kurt Vonnegut
wayne stephen
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" I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the suns energy .... If sunbeams were weapons of war , we would have had solar energy centuries ago. " - Sir George Porter 1973
Ken Peavey
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'It's never too late to chase your dream.'
-Diana Nyad, 2 Sept 2013, after completing a 110 mile open water swim in 53 hours from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida at age 64.
David Williams
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" The well-beaten path is for the well-beaten man" Sum Gui Mid 1800's
wayne stephen
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" Beware the hobby that eats . " - Benjamin Franklin
Ken Peavey
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Seed the Mind, Harvest Ideas
wayne stephen
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" He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt . He has been given a large brain by mistake , since for him a spinal cord will suffice . " - Albert Einstein
wayne stephen
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" Husbandry is the name of all practices that sustain life by connecting us conservingly to our places and our world ; it is the art of keeping tied all the strands in the living network that sustains us . And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agricultures manifest failures are an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry . " - Wendell Berry
Leila Rich
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"pulverised by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.” ― Margaret Mahy
Random, but she's a fantastic NZ writer for kids and young adults. Funny, clever and profound.
And yip, she was a librarian...
Leila Rich
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Jocelyn Campbell wrote: Love this thread, Wayne. Thanks for keeping it rolling.
Me too! And Ken for starting it rolling
wayne stephen
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" We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish . " - Friedrich August von Hayek
Jocelyn Campbell
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wayne stephen wrote:If it's worth doing , it's worth doing wrong .
Who said this one? I think Joel Salatin often says something like this. Love this thread, Wayne. Thanks for keeping it rolling.
wayne stephen
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" Through the evolutionary process , those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction . " - Robert Nozick
wayne stephen
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If it's worth doing , it's worth doing wrong .
Ken Peavey
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Sometimes the best way to start a project is with reckless abandon.
Ken Peavey
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"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?"
-Robert Redford
wayne stephen
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" A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right . " - Thomas Paine
R Scott
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"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
--Albert Einstein
wayne stephen
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Power corrupts . Incrementally increasing power corrupts incrementally .
Jocelyn Campbell
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"A word is the skin of a living thought."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Rick Roman
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"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion"
- Thomas Paine-
wayne stephen
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" Men are from Earth . Women are from Earth . Deal with it . " - George Carlin
Ken Peavey
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
- Henry David Thoreau
Ken Peavey
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"Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own – indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process."
-Wangari Maathai
wayne stephen
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As 140 acres of trees adjacent to us goes into the shredder for paper pulp { preparing the ground to recieve Round Up Ready row crops } I hear a neighbor say " Well , it will be good to see things cleaned up around here " . So , trees are dirty ? There is certainly alot of work to be done .
Judith Browning
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"Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."
from "Anthem" Leonard Cohen
fiona smith
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Upper class keeps all of the money,pays none of the taxes. Middle class pays all of the taxes does all the work...
The poor are there, just to scare the shit out of the middle class, keep 'em showing up at those jobs! George carling
Ken Peavey
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The answer comes up every morning.
wayne stephen
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" It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean , but it was heard at great depth and great distance . " - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
wayne stephen
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" I am , somehow , less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteins brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops . " - S. J. Gould
wayne stephen
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" There's no such thing as soy milk . It's soy juice . " - Lewis Black
wayne stephen
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" You are what what you eat eats " - Michael Pollan
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