Hemenway Quotes

#1. If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#2. A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane.

Toby Hemenway

#3. Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people.

Toby Hemenway

#4. When you are doing work of value, people will support you in a variety of ways, not just money.

Toby Hemenway

#5. Women's music is underrepresented.

Beth Anderson

#6. The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife.

Toby Hemenway

#7. To think well; this is the principle of morality.

Blaise Pascal

#8. In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

Malala Yousafzai

#9. That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

Robbie Robertson

#10. Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

R.C. Sproul

#11. The average yard is both an ecological and agricultural desert. The prime offender is short-mown grass, which offers no habitat and nothing for people except a place to sit, yet sucks down far more water and chemicals than a comparable amount of farmland.

Toby Hemenway

#12. Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better

David Hemenway

#13. Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance

Toby Hemenway

#14. There is no evidence that having more guns reduces crime. None at All.

David Hemenway

#15. President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?

Tony Campolo

#16. Where there are more guns, there are more gun problems, it 's particularly dangerous to have a gun around when people do things spontaneously. In college, from a public health standpoint, brains are n't fully developed.

David Hemenway

#17. So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.

Muriel Barbery

#18. I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where ... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want to see happen rather than trying to force a particular set of outcomes.

Toby Hemenway

#19. I used to dream, and I used to vow;
I wouldn't dream of it now.

Morrissey

#20. Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface

Toby Hemenway

#21. The creation of virtual worlds had taken the place of advances in the physical world. "You can say the whole Internet has something very escapist to it,

George Packer

#22. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.
-Ella Varner

Lisa Kleypas

#23. I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

Kirstie Alley

#24. If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.

John Bingham