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One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all… — Plato Copy Share Image
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At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
You grow great crops in great soil. And the soil is the commons. Increasingly, we have monopolistic companies that try to take… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Advocacy of leaf protein as a human food is based on the undisputed fact that forage crops (such as lucerne) give a… — Norman Pirie Copy Share Image
My formative years, until I was 12, was all shaped by Jamaican culture, by that economy, by the people in my family,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism. And if we do not get our act together and listen to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In the old days of America when communities were separated by hundreds of miles, why were they able to thrive? Because if… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
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California Marijuana farmers are worried that radiation from Japan could affect their crops. Or maybe for some strange reason they're just being… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
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Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works.… — Mary Morrissey Copy Share Image
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