Growing Food Quotes

• Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.

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  Wendell Berry

  Independent   Garden   Thinking  

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• much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).

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  Frances Moore Lappé

  Coffee   Land   Tea  

  Frances Moore Lappé (1971). “Diet for a Small Planet”

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• Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended. Also, fear of them keeps people off the land, and thus prevents them from growing food.

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  Kofi Annan

  War   Land   Long  

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• I have always gone to nature, since I was a kid. I was brought up in the woods, I did not have lots of friends, so I spent lot of time alone. My mother always loved to live in the forest; she loved gardens, birds and nature and taught me a deep respect for that. She taught me about growing food and vegetables and to take care of animals. They also have feelings. So nature was always something sacred for me, the place I can go, meditate and pray. It's like a church in the nature for me.

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  David LaChapelle

  Mother   Kids   Garden  

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• I knew early on that we needed to settle the food problem because if you can grow food it's empowering. In fact I believe growing food is one of the most dangerous occupations on the face of this earth because you're in danger of becoming free.

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  Jules Dervaes

  Believe   Empowering   Growing  

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• We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2 percent. We no longer think about how the wonderful things in the grocery store got there, and we'd like to go back to what we think is a more natural way.

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  Nina Fedoroff

  Thinking   Generations   Gone  

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• Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships.

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  Frances Moore Lappé

  Growing   Changed   Approach  

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• In our society, growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can-and will-overturn the corporate powers that be. By the process of directly working in harmony with nature, we do the one thing most essential to change the world-we change ourselves!

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  Jules Dervaes

  Essentials   World   Growing  

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• Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

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  Barbara Kingsolver

  Cities   Firsts   Groups  

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.178, Faber & Faber

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• Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.

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  Alice Waters

  Children   School   Garden  

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