February 2012
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Maude: I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They're so tall and simple. What flower would you like to be?
Harold: I don't know. One of these, maybe.
Maude: Why do you say that?
Harold: Because they're all alike.
Maude: Oh, but they're not! Look, see, some are smaller, some are fatter... some grow to the left, some to the right... some have even lost some petals - all kinds of observable differences. You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.
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“Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.”
– Serbian Proverb
“You must understand the whole of life. Not just one little part of it.
That is...”
– Krishnamurti
“It is reported that about 30% of the world’s population is unemployed. That’s...”
– Noam Chomsky
“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then...”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest →
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bencrowther:
Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries;...
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster....”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“I was understanding that my identity wasn’t going to and shouldn’t come from who...”
– Gloria Steinem (via whatshallwedo)
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It’s so sunny, I’m going to take this vicodin and relax away my hangover.
My life needs structure.
“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via mutualaddiction)
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
– Socrates
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
