Holmgren Quotes

#1. I've been excited since I received a phone call from Paul Holmgren inviting me to represent the Flyers and Flyer fans at the alumni game of the Winter Classic weekend.

Eric Lindros

#2. Listen to what I tell you and do it. If you do, three things can happen: One, it will work and you'll get credit. Two, it won't work and I'll get the blame. Three, you'll do it wrong and you'll be gone.

Mike Holmgren

#3. When we work with nature instead of trying to impose our will, the solution is often found within the problem.

David Holmgren

#4. Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs.

David Holmgren

#5. Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

David Holmgren

#6. My reputation when I was first here was that I had every single answer in the book. I don't know, maybe I portrayed that somehow. I was learning, and I continue to learn and I have learned.

Mike Holmgren

#7. Still, past assholes could make a person feel skittish. You had to be careful. It could all suddenly be different than you thought it was. A big possible mistake could be hidden anywhere, ready to blow up everything, same as stepping on a land mine.

Deb Caletti

#8. While everyone has a different experience of what is soulful, these experiences do share similar beginnings. We start by giving ourselves permission to be soulful, to take seriously this aspect of ourselves, our soul and our soul needs.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

#9. No one can ever know you like those with whom you've shared the pangs of your youth.

Sarah Domet

#10. Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

Ernest Istook

#11. And the truth is, sometimes my sisters and I do get jealous, and sometimes we do say things to-and about-one another that are thoughtless and rude. We don't meant them, though. It's just whenever we're together, we slip into our old familiar roles.

Jillian Medoff

#12. The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore.

David Holmgren

#13. The great ones don't come cheap.

Mike Holmgren

#14. Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.

Lee Wulff

#15. I guess all we have left are awesome dreams.

Dan Wells

#16. If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

William Shakespeare

#17. I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.

Ellen Page

#18. After all of it ... the good, the bad, the in-between ... If I told you that I love you, what would you say?

Autumn Doughton

#19. Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

Chuck Daly

#20. It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

David Holmgren