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[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

Here's one I just found:

"Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoners.
- Lao Tzu

Here is my own collection, online, eventually expanded with others I have
found on the Web

http://www.ibiblio.org/london/sayings

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- These sayings in particular, thinking of the times we are in and what the
world faces::

I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness,
no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you
just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness
of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement
of your own capacities,
Just that in itself creates new potential.
--Vandana Shiva, India Activist and Author

There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of
success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation
of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who
would profit by the preservation of the old system and merely
lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete.
- Buckminster Fuller

In times of change, those who are ready to learn will
inherit the world, while those who believe they know will
be marvelously prepared to deal with a world that has ceased
to exist.
- Eric Hoffer

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In China, there is a famous saying "sons or daughters
never look down upon their ugly mothers, and dogs
never leave their poor masters".

in the landscape of Spring, there is nothing inferior
and nothing superior. flowering branches grow
naturally. some short, some long.
-Zen saying-

The Earth was not given to us by our parents,
it is loaned to us by our children.
The Earth does not belong to us,
we belong to the Earth - Chief Seattle, 1854

Every day the intelligent person learns something new,
but every day the wise person gives up some certainty
The Buddha.

The purpose of agriculture is not the production of food,
but the perfection of human beings.
Masanobu Fukuoka - "One Straw Revolution"

Alan Chadwick said: We need to create the beauty
and the quality first, the quantity will follow.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the
mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
-- Albert Einstein

The soil population is so complex that it manifestly
cannot be dealt with as a whole with any detail
by any one person, and at the same time it plays
so important a part in the soil economy that it
must be studied.
Sir E. John Russell
"The Micro-organisms of the Soil" 1923

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

Mankind cannot expect the Earth to produce more,
mankind must do more with what the Earth produces..
Gunter Pauli. Upsizing



On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Bob Waldrop <bob@bobwaldrop.net> wrote:

> Thanks for the comment, and for the quote from Chadwick.  I am a
> "collector of quotes" and there are piles of them in ipermie, lol.  I
> will add yours to my collection.
>
> Bob Waldrop, Oklahoma City
> http://www.ipermie.net  Permaculture your urban lifestyle & protect
> yourself from the four horsemen of the modern apocalypse: peak oil, climate
> instability, economic irrationality, and political criminality
>
> On 11/26/2013 10:33 AM, Lawrence London wrote:
> > Bob:
> >
> > I finally got around to having a serious look at your magnificent Magnum
> > Opus at iPermie. This is
> > a real world class creation. I will buy a copy for myself today. We all
> owe
> > you one for writing it.
> >
> > I saw this at the beginning:
> >
> > "The World will be saved by Beauty! (Dostoevsky)"
> >
> > I'll suggest this also from Alan Chadwick, from the era of groundbreaking
> > work he did
> > decades ago promoting French biointensive raised bed double dug food
> gardens
> > (my primary focus in agriculture and permaculture, soil quality and food
> > harvests of maximum nutritional quality):
> >
> > Allen Chadwick said, "We need to create the beauty and the quality
>  first.
> > The quantity will follow."
> >
> > You might be interested in Lion Kuntz's writings:
> > https://sites.google.com/site/biointensivefarming/
> > lionkuntz-plenty-1.rar<
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxiaW9pbnRlbnNpdmVmYXJtaW5nfGd4OjFkMzVkNjI5NTM0ODcyNw
> >
> > (10001k)
> > Mar 28, 2013, 11:00 AM
> > lionkuntz-plenty-2.rar<
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxiaW9pbnRlbnNpdmVmYXJtaW5nfGd4OjViZjcyNmUxOTFjMTdlODA
> >
> > (9618k)
> > Mar 28, 2013, 11:32 AM
> > lionkuntz-plenty-3.rar<
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxiaW9pbnRlbnNpdmVmYXJtaW5nfGd4OjZiMjNhMWVmOWUyMzkwMg
> >
> > (15178k)
> > Mar 28, 2013, 11:50 A
> >
> > These are available for download.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Bob Waldrop <bob@bobwaldrop.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Here is a link to the first 3 sections of my ebook on urban
> >> permaculture.  Section 0 has a chapter, 00221, on Principles, which
> >> looks at the lists of 4 Permaculture "fathers" -- Scott Pittman, Dan
> >> Hemenway, David Holmgren, and Bill Mollison.  The preceding chapter,
> >> 00211, is on ethics which gives the foundation for the principles.
> >>
> >> http://www.ipermie.net/ipermiesample.pdf
> >>
> >> Bob Waldrop, Oklahoma City
> >> http://www.ipermie.net  Permaculture your urban lifestyle & protect
> >> yourself from the four horsemen of the modern apocalypse: peak oil,
> climate
> >> instability, economic irrationality, and political criminality
> >>
> >>
>
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