Gustafson Quotes

#1. Maybe we need to re-engage our smart, energetic youth around the world to be farmers and find fresh, green technologies that will feed the world more fresh greens.

Ellen Gustafson

#2. The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

Thomas Sankara

#3. The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

Christopher Dawson

#4. Once you start thinking about where your products come from and what they 'do,' that's going to be an inherent part of your choice as you purchase products throughout your life.

Ellen Gustafson

#5. You may never get back this life, so do something in this lifetime worthy of celebration.

Debasish Mridha

#6. I want to be Willy Wonka. He has a really fun spirited side but also a dark, justice-giver side.

Drew Daywalt

#7. To address our current food system problems, I propose a series of local, regional, national and global conversations - starting around the dinner table - to rethink the food we produce, buy and eat.

Ellen Gustafson

#8. Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite skinny, and that's because they're starving.

Ellen Gustafson

#9. We are confronted by insurmountable opportunities." - Walt Kelly (Pogo)

Eleanor Gustafson

#10. As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.

Ellen Gustafson

#11. Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.

Kathryn Gustafson

#12. The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Ellen Gustafson

#13. Soldiers planted like vegetables waiting for the day of harvest. ... everything is more intense at night, perfectly beautiful, and when the wind shifts and the reek of rotting meat vanishes for a few blessed minutes you can smell the sweet scent of the countryside.

Louis De Bernieres

#14. People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

Tim Conway

#15. Every single person who has ever walked down the street with a FEED bag has purchased it. I think that's really relevant because it means that you have got to make that choice to spend that money on that product.

Ellen Gustafson

#16. When the Lord is known as the heart of every joy, as well as the refuge from every sorrow, then the altar will be known for what it is - an ecclesiastical antique. The Father permitted but never ordained sacrifice; in tenderness to his children he ordered the ways of their unbelieving belief.

George MacDonald

#17. Debasing your currency sometimes works in the short term, it has never worked in the long term and does not even usually work in the medium term. Lots of politicians like to do it because it is an easy way.

Jim Rogers

#18. You can't think your way into right action, but you can act your way into right thinking.

Bill Wilson

#19. Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Aristotle.

#20. German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.

Bernard Berenson