Bill Mollison Quotes
The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, "Permaculture Two is a seditious book." And I said, "At last someone understands what permaculture's about."Bill Mollison
Quotes to Explore
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
Ibrahim Babangida -
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
Jacob Epstein -
The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.
Said Nursi -
If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
Rakul Preet Singh -
If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
La Monte Young -
I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
Van Morrison
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
Rafael Nadal -
I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.
Larry Brown -
Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
Gavin Newsom -
I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
J. K. Simmons -
I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
Landon Donovan -
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Samuel Gompers
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I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
Dan Gable -
The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
Zebulon Pike -
We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
Van Wyck Brooks -
When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
Carine Roitfeld -
I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.
Nancy Horan
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
Liberty Hyde Bailey -
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
Elizabeth Moon -
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.
Abraham Lincoln -
I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
Jack Gilbert -
The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.
Malcolm Turnbull -
The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, "Permaculture Two is a seditious book." And I said, "At last someone understands what permaculture's about."
Bill Mollison