Friday’s Quote 3-21-08
“I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast.
I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life.”
George Washington Carver
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Friday’s Quote 3-14-2008
“If you are thinking a year ahead, sow seed. If you are thinking 10 years ahead, plant a tree.
If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people.”
Old Chinese saying
Quote for 2-25-2008
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
Oscar Wilde
Quote for 1-16-08
“The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.”
~ The Unsettling of America (1977) by Wendell Berry
Quote for 1-13-08
Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?
Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
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“The bottom line is, screw the dealers, help the addicts.”
Brain Paddick - former Police Commander in Lambeth after busting a pair of crack cocaine dealers. Commander Paddick is now a candidate for Mayor of London
Brian’s also made statements that are understanding, if not sympathetic, of anarchism - on internet message boards. More importantly [...]
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I get anonymous packages of seeds through the post.
Bix Ivol
50+ year old multiple sclerosis sufferer from Orkney who grows her own and also has supplied others . . .
here’s a link to a speech she gave in 2003 in favor of madicinal marijuana - Bix Ivol Speaks
Sadly, Bix has left this mortal coil, [...]
Quote for the Day
When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter - to quit paradise for earth - heaven for hell! Taste the hashish, guest of mine - taste the hashish!
Alexander Dumas / The Count of Monte Cristo - 1844
Quote for 10-26-07
“With this salt I am shaking the foundations of empire” -Mohandas Karamchand “Mahatma” Gandhi
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