Gary Paul Nabhan Quotes

#1. We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.

Gary Paul Nabhan

#2. If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

Oprah Winfrey

#3. If you send it halfway around the world before it is eaten, an organic food still may be 'good' for the consumer, but is it 'good' for the food system?

Gary Paul Nabhan

#4. Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.

Bennett Cerf

#5. A seed is really something spiritual as much as it is something material. It contains a life spark that allows the regenerative process to happen. We need seeds because they are the physical manifestation of that concept that we call hope.

Gary Paul Nabhan

#6. The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God ... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#7. The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.

Kate Millett

#8. You wrote words with your hand, but your mind wiped me away.

Okey Ndibe

#9. You think this necklace is a tailsman?"
"Yep, I'm not stupid Leif. I hang with Death, ya know.

Abbi Glines

#10. Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.

C.S. Lewis

#11. Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

Danny Silk

#12. The greatest nations are those who try to change the unalterable realities!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. I've never really compared myself to anyone who's a big star - I'm not trying to be a fashion icon or get famous.

Katy B

#14. I think we need to rethink a lot of business skills. In finance, for example, social impact bonds are potentially a way of providing capital for investments that save the public money in a context in which government often doesn't invest in things that would save it money.

Nicholas Kristof

#15. Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.

Gary Paul Nabhan

#16. I am dealing with people with both sides. I see people who are liberating themselves but they want to forget the world. And I see people who want to liberate the world but they forget themselves. Neither is the way I want to go.

Tariq Ramadan