Quotes :)


Here are some of my favorite quotes:

"With one mind, we turn to honor and thank all the Food Plants we harvest from the garden. Since the beginning of time, the grains, vegetables, beans, and berries have helped the people survive. Many other living things draw strength from them, too. We gather all the Plant Foods together as one and send them a greeting of thanks."  ~ Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."  ~ Nelson Mandela

"Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire."  ~ William Butler Yeats

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."  ~ John Muir

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."  ~ Native American Proverb

"No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” ~ Albert Einstein

"Everything we do affects other people." ~ Luke Ford

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."  ~ Albert Einstein

"Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty." ~ Paul McCartney

"Let food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food." ~ Hippocrates

"The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."  ~ Thomas A. Edison

"Peace, like charity, begins at home."  ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The journey is the destination." ~ Dan Eldon

"Pray for what you need, but always work for what you want." ~ African proverb

"Instead of putting a quarter under a kid's pillow, how about a pinecone? That way he learns that "wishing" isn't going to save our national forests." ~ Jack Handy

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."  ~Bill Vaughn

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." ~ Gandhi

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money."  ~ Cree Indian proverb