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• Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

  Elon Musk

  Biofuels, Wilderness, Natural

  "Elon Musk on rockets, sports cars, and solar power". Interview with Micahel Kanellos, www.cnet.com. February 15, 2008.

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• Hey, what if those crop circles are just ads for Target?

  Dennis Miller

  Circles, What If, Target

  "Fictional character: Dennis Miller Doll". "The Nostalgia Critic/ The First Couple: TMNT", 2010.

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• We have so many alternatives, like kenaf. It produces more crop, it's hardier, and creates incredible paper products. Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all. I'm inviting anyone else who thinks the same to reach out and get involved with our think tanks around creating tree free alternatives ASAP.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Thinking, Creating, Tree

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the more it is absorbed by plants of every description - - and the faster and better they grow, even under adverse conditions like limited water, extremely hot air temperatures, or infestations of insects, weeds and other pests. As trees, grasses, algae and crops grow more rapidly and become healthier and more robust, animals and humans enjoy better nutrition on a planet that is greener and greener.

  Paul Driessen

  Weed, Animal, Air

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• The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Pain, Disappointment, Hard Work

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.100, InterVarsity Press

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• If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

  Wendell Berry

  Cutting, Men, Years

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.150, Counterpoint Press

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• Honor the hands that harvest your crops.

  Dolores Huerta

  Hands, Honor, Harvest

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• The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

  Alexander Pope

  Hands, Play, Blood

  Alexander Pope (1804). “The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.4

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• In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Believe, Wine

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• We're still promoting stupid wasteful behavior in agribusiness - everything from ethanol production for cars to genetically modified crops. In commerce just about everything we do politically is in the service of WalMart and the systems tied to it. In transportation, we could, for instance, have compelled General Motors to produce railroad rolling stock as a condition of their bail-out, but we didn't do that. Instead, we're chasing the phantom of electric cars - and, believe me, we are going to be mortally disappointed how that works out.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Stupid, Believe, Work Out

  Source: www.terrain.org

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• as a physician I examine the dying planet as I do a dying patient. The earth has a natural system of interacting homeostatic mechanisms similar to the human body's. If one system is diseased, like the ozone layer, then other systems develop abnormalities in function - the crops will die, the plankton will be damaged, and the eyes of all creatures on the planet will become diseased and vision impaired.

  Helen Caldicott

  Eye, Ozone, Vision

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.

  Diana Vreeland

  Beautiful, Cutting, Blow

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• Unless you remove the weeds, a good crop will be ruined.

  Sadao Araki

  Weed, Ruined, Remove

  "The Quarterly review" by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, (p. 20), 1935.

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• I am wrestling with the overalls trend. I wore so many pairs in junior high, and no one thought they were cute. Perhaps I'll try them cuffed with a tasteful crop top?

  Gillian Jacobs

  Cute, Wrestling, Trying

  "Do You Sometimes Mispronounce Designer Names? This TV Star Does and Totally Owns It". Interview with Fawnia Soo Hoo, www.glamour.com. April 29, 2014.

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• On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.

  Katerina Graham

  Cutting, Denim, Days Off

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• When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.

  Carole Katchen

  Patience, Waiting, Way

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• artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Lying, Long

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Fuel, Failing

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.72, Oxford University Press

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• The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Writing, Men

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• There is broad scientific consensus that genetically engineered crops currently on the market are safe to eat. After 14 years of cultivation and a cumulative total of 2 billion acres planted, no adverse health or environmental effects have resulted from commercialization of genetically engineered crops.

  Pamela Ronald

  Years, Environmental, Acres

  "Scientists Are Happy California Won't Label Genetically Modified Food" by Christie Wilcox, www.businessinsider.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and thistles of depression, discontent, and anxiety in the garden of your mind. Luckily, the opposite is also true. Consistently planting positive, healthy, constructive thoughts will yield a crop of beautiful feelings, such as gratitude, love, and joy.

  Sue Thoele

  Beautiful, Weed, Gratitude

  Sue Patton Thoele (2008). “The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart”, p.52, New Harbinger Publications

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• Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

  Mark Twain

  Men, Sand, Made

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.297, eKitap Projesi

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• Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest.

  Mary Morrissey

  Doe, Mindfulness, Today

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• Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilizing the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no.

  William Faulkner

  Women, Drawing, People

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• Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always need to compare players of different eras and designate one of them as the greatest player of all time.

  Dave McPherson

  Sports, Player, Accomplishment

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