Helen Nearing Quotes

#1. When you are faced with food that has been sterilized, fumigated, hydrogenated, hydrolyzed, homogenized, colored, bleached, puffed, exploded, defatted, degermed, texturized, or if you don't know what has been done to it, the safest rule is not to eat it.

Helen Nearing

#2. I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe they were quite frank initially, but then they did one thing which went wrong.

Rory Stewart

#3. It just comes down to taste at the end of the day, and that's something you can't really analyze. Yeah, I think to have it all there is basically best, regardless of whether there's hiss there as well.

Sean Booth

#4. The business of procuring the necessities of life has been shifted from the wood lot, the garden, the kitchen and the family to the factory and the large-scale enterprise. In our case, we moved our center back to the land.

Helen Nearing

#5. Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.

Ron Brackin

#6. There are several ways to perform almost any act - an efficient, workable, artistic way and a careless, indifferent, sloppy way. Care and artistry are worth the trouble. They can be a satisfaction to the practitioner and a joy to all beholders.

Helen Nearing

#7. Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?

Helen And Scott Nearing

#8. I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep me alive, strong and healthy. Therefore, I will not kill for food.

Helen And Scott Nearing

#9. When you love yourself endlessly, you will find that the whole world loves you too.

Debasish Mridha

#10. There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Timothy Noah

#11. 14You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.

Anonymous

#12. we cannot rely on the love of other people to sustain us. People will come and go. It is only the love of the Lord that endures." I

Andrea Joy Wenburg

#13. Leah Smith. That was the little beast's name. She was as rich as I was poor, as happy as I was miserable, as redheaded as I was dark.

Tarryn Fisher

#14. The store customer, who comes home with a package under his arm has learned nothing, except that a ten dollar bill is a source of power in the market place. The man or woman who has converted material into needed products via tools and skills has matured in the process.

Helen Nearing

#15. They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.

Arthur Ransome

#16. The key to resolving international conflict with a positive outcome includes looking for a win-win situation, finding common ground, formulating proactive strategies, using effective negotiation and communication, and appreciating cultural differences.

Amit Ray

#17. You didn't discover a secret passage into someone's palace and not tell them everything you knew about it.

Kady Cross

#18. You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

Ayelet Waldman

#19. Girls, to her mind, suffered an agony of suspense and an embarrassing passivity during prom season.

Nora Roberts