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Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn, “An Easter Hymn”
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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams, and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
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He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.
-~Henry Ward Beecher
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“In the depths of winter, I finally found that within me lay an invincible summer.”
~ Albert Camus
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“The art of taxation consists of so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.”
~ J.B. Colbert, French Statesman, circa 1665
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“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
~ Frederic Bastiat
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“Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power”
~ David Ricardo
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“As the state grows, one’s sense of self-ownership is destroyed, liberty is traded for ’security’, the human spirit diminishes, and the citizenry increasingly thinks and behaves like dependent children”.
~ Eric Englund
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“Everyone who enjoys thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. — Herein lies the difference between them that create and them that enjoy.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Regarding the general Seminis [Monsanto's vegetable Division] business in Africa, the main project is the hybridisation program where Monsanto is actively working in all areas to convert growers from growing open pollinated varieties to hybrid varieties.
~ Monsanto Website
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If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called “produce” and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?
~Ymber Delecto
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High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?
~Annita Manning
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Depending on others for the basics of life often works fine right up until it doesn’t.
~ Andy Davis
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“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”
~ Lewis Grizzard
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Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.
~ 1st Earl of Chatham, William Pitt
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
~ John Cage
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“Any scientist who tells you they know that GMOs are safe and not to worry about it, is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying. Nobody knows what the long-term effect will be.”
~ Geneticist, David Suzuki, giving the 2008 Commonwealth Lecture in London
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It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
~Mark Twain
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You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook’s year. I get more excited by that than anything else.
~Mario Batali
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Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
Thomas Blackburn, “An Easter Hymn”
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Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labour of man. Man may be civilized in some degree without great progress in manufactures and with little commerce with his distant neighbours. But without the cultivation of the earth, he is, in all countries, a savage. Until he gives up [...]
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