Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Happel

Detroit's not a garden place in any way, shape or form. No laying by the pool or playing golf.

Charles Jencks

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

Diane Ackerman

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

Diane Ackerman

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

Demi Lovato

I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

Cory Doctorow

Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.

Dorothy Richardson

In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.

Douglas Wilson

Use plants to bring life

Douglas William Jerrold

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Allan Savory

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.

Roy Rogers

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Ron Paul

Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses.

Ronald Coase

I can't remember [of a good regulation]. Regulation of transport, regulation of agriculture — agriculture is a, zoning is z. You know, you go from a to z, they are all bad. There were so many studies, and the result was quite universal: The effects were bad

Steven Chu

So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

Ramez Naam

Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

Michael Pollan

People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.

Skeet Ulrich

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

Norman Borlaug

Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.

Baruch Spinoza

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Brian Tracy

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.

Jane Campion

I fell in love again (laughs).

Busy Philipps

For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag.

Catherine O'Hara

I'm afraid to laugh out loud, because there's so much information.

Carrot Top

My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.

Carrot Top

In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'

Dean Koontz

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

Craig Ferguson

I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.