Moni

“Former petroleum industry analyst Jan Lundberg puts it this way, “The nation and most of the rest of the world is chasing a technofix instead of adjusting to ecological/economic reality.”
― Mark Shepard, Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers

“The dedication had been anticipated nationwide. Francis J. Bellamy, an editor of Youth’s Companion, thought it would be a fine thing if on that day all the schoolchildren of America, in unison, offered something to their nation. He composed a pledge that the Bureau of Education mailed to virtually every school. As originally worded, it began, “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands …”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

“Plants removing carbon from the air is, in fact, how the earth’s vast coal deposits were formed.”
― Mark Shepard, Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers

“When Homer composed the Iliad and Odyssey, he was drawing on centuries of history and folklore handed down by oral tradition. When Nicolas Poussin painted The Rape of the Sabine Women, he was re-creating Roman history. When Marcel Proust dipped his petites madeleines into his tea, the taste and aroma set off a flood of memories and emotions from which modern literature has still not recovered.”
― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life