Wes Jackson Quotes
Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.Wes Jackson
Quotes to Explore
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
Dan Savage -
Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
Laura Robson -
Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
Dan Brown -
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
Yuri Kochiyama -
I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
Pat Summitt
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I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.
Gareth Gates -
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
A. J. Muste -
SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
A. R. Ammons -
I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.
Charles Darwin -
I remember watching 'EastEnders' as a kid with my mum, and even my dad would be gripped by the odd episode. So to think I would be part of the show was a strange feeling at first.
Ben Hardy -
There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
Frederick Soddy
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I don't have life rage anymore.
Christina Ricci -
And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.
Duane G. Carey -
Even though I am an actor, by nature I am what you could call a homely girl.
Divyanka Tripathi -
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
Maurice Sendak -
I've been to Gettysburg probably more than half a dozen times.
Keith Hernandez -
People say, 'Well, whose career do you follow? Where do you see your career going? What movie do you want to do next?' And I can't tell you what type of movie I would go and do next. I would have to read the script and feel for a character. And if I feel in my gut for a character, I know that that's somebody I have to play.
Blake Lively
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I tell myself things will be different in a few years' time, but this is the most wonderful, golden time for me. I'm basking in the success of 'Tango', really loving it.
Anne Reid -
'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
Naomi Wolf -
I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one thing - just doing podcasts or just having a website or just doing television - isn't enough anymore.
Chris Hardwick -
Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.
Wes Jackson