Rick Groepper

“More leaf over the soil means more fertility returning to the ground.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

“It might be worthwhile to take a familiar question—why is there so much crime in modern society?—and stand it on its head: why isn't there a bit more crime?

After all, every one of us regularly passes up opportunities to main, steal, and defraud. The chance of going to jail—thereby losing your job, your house, and your freedom, all of which are essentially economic penalties—is certainly a strong incentive. But when it comes to crime people also respond to moral incentives (they don't want to do something they consider wrong) and social incentives (they don't want to be seen by others as doing something wrong).”
― Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt

“Promise me. No more doubts. No more buts. No more putting your feelings on the back burner. No more secrets.”
― JoDee Neathery, Wings Against The Wind

“I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something directed my way by members of the opposite sex. For want of a better word, call it magnetism. Like it or not, it’s a kind of power that snares people and reels them in.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun