The ancient practice of allowing land to remain fallow for a season is now exploded, and a succession of different crops found… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My parents would make huge crops of sometimes 55 to 60 bales of cotton. Being from a big family where there were… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and I… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
One of the skills of a journalist, though, is to find people who can teach him what he needs to know. So… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
There is broad scientific consensus that genetically engineered crops currently on the market are safe to eat. After 14 years of cultivation… — Pamela Ronald Copy Share Image
How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
While the demand for organic food outstrips supply, we happen to know that 77 percent of consumers don't want genetically engineered crops… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it… — Zhang Sanfeng Copy Share Image
Studies show that organically grown crops produce more of the things (ascorbic acid, lycopenes, resveratrol, flavonols in general, etc) that our bodies… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and… — John Moody Copy Share Image
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It's risky to allow radiation to constantly go up into the atmosphere. The main criticism of this approach of entombing it is… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
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