David Holmgren Quotes

The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore.

David Holmgren

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• Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Fashion

• The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Health
  • Care

• Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Care
  • Study

• You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Earth
  • Moon
  • Mars

• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• I don't care about losses anymore.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Care
  • Anymore
  • Losses

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Up
  • Bad
  • House

• Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Care

• It's hard for me to take care of myself, let's put it that way. I am my last priority.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Priority

• The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Hope
  • Earth
  • Responsibility

• I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Team
  • Care
  • Look

• I think, of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never know what sort of gift is appropriate. A jar of dirt, maybe? And it's not clear to me why Earth even needs a 'day,' since a spin on its axis creates a day. That's like giving a man who owns a shoe store a gift of a pair of shoes.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Giving

• Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • May
  • Stop
  • Democracy

• Our dependence on the pollutants of this Earth have always, and will continue to have, far-reaching consequences to our eco-systems, bio systems, geosystems and our race's natural evolution.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Earth
  • Race
  • Evolution

• 'In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.'

  

  Albert Camus
  • Time
  • Live
  • Earth

• Is all our Life, then, but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?Bowed to the earth with bitter woe Or laughing at some raree-show We flutter idly to and fro.Man's little Day in haste we spend, And, from its merry noontide, send No glance to meet the silent end.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Life
  • Time
  • Dream

• I thought Bolt was amazing, I mean, beating the world record and slowing down at the end, how galling has that got the for the other athletes? I never managed to do anything in 9.69 seconds, it took me ten seconds to watch him do that.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Amazing

• When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Desire

• There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Music
  • Courage

• What can they do besides exile me or make me disappear? They have no imagination or creativity.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Imagination
  • Creativity

• The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore.

  

  David Holmgren
  • Earth
  • Care
  • Consequence