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"Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food - just so they afford something to eat."
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"High productivity and a healthy environment are two unconditionally entwined buddies. Our process allows us to abort any attempts toward crucifying either of the two-because as soon as one of them dies, the other follows suit."

"With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and its little confluents to drink and be clean and irrigate with, using water mindfully, carefully. They lived in a land that answers greed with drought and death. A difficult land: aloof yet sensitive."

"We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands."

"Once our family was very small and we used to say, ''our planet has enough resources to feed all of us'' but today, we are not that family and it is a burden on our planet to feed us. We have to reconsider our views and confess ''our planet has not enough resources to feed all of us anymore''."

"Very soon nations will understand that in reality Water is the most expensive natural resource for their survivals. Not Middle East oil neither African gold."

"If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized, monoculture agriculture because big likes to buy from big. So I realized, wow, how we cook or whether we cook has a huge bearing on what kind of agriculture we're going to have."

"A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage."

"In case you're short on definitions, here's one. Insanity: 'Destroying the very things that sustain us.' And if we're so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it's not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight."

"We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it."

"I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is."
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"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"In some cases, it is the woman's stomach-not her heart-that has left her man for another."

"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."

"Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays."

"The real reason the number of things that are shared via social media every single minute is so astronomical is because, whenever they each do, most users do not share or say something because they believe they have something worth remembering; they do mainly or only because they fear being forgotten."
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