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Isabel Allende has 214 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of…
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken…
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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it…
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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
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For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions…
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that…
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate…
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence,…
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless…
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There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are…
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Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God…
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The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This…
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You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.
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We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands…
— Parker J. Palmer
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I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He…
— Karel Capek
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will…
— Wendell Berry
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The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love -…
— David Abram
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The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without…
— Albert Howard
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers.…
— Wendell Berry
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