It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
the end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora.
The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.
At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.
Women spend the money of society on its goods.
People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
I always wanted to write when I was a kid; it just never occurred to me that you could have a job that didn't involve any actual work. . . . I felt it would be fun to have a job like that where you could make stuff up and be irresponsible and get paid for it.
Celtic enjoys a greater community spirit than any other club in the world.
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.