As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007… — Dave Heineman Copy Share Image
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly,… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
In America, I think we just keep adding, and that's our problem. We almost never subtract. We keep adding these boondoggles, and… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
In terms of any sacrifices at the time [of World War II], I was somewhat protected living on a small farm where… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
What's really important to remember is that this type of legislation exists in one form or another in every other province in… — Rachel Notley Copy Share Image
Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
If Obama can force you to get health insurance just by calling it a tax, than there is nothing to stop him… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
What?s wrong about eating cows? What do you think god made them for? Their big, their stupid, their delicious. You want more… — Paul Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It was depressing, ... I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization. g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed.… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Throughout the late '80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people here, we started to break windows, we started… — Rod Coronado Copy Share Image
Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being… — Faith Sullivan Copy Share Image
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