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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- "We are fighting today for security, for progress, and for peace, not only for ourselves but for all men, not only for one generation but for all generations. We are fighting to cleanse the world of ancient evils, ancient ills." Franklin Delano Roosevelt State of the Union Address - 1942 What Permaculturalists are doing is the most important work being done on the planet. David Suzuki The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. Abraham Lincoln Clever men solve problems, wise men avoid them. 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. Support small farming and community supported agriculture: buy locally grown products labelled: sustainably grown, natural, ecological, biodynamic, beyondorganic, biological, greenfood, handgrown, earthfriendly, wildcrafted, biointensive or: produced without synthetic pesticides, produced without synthetic fertilizers, raised without synthetic chemicals, pesticide-free farm, no drugs or growth hormones used, raised without antibiotics, raised without hormones, no growth stimulants administered, ecologically produced, sustainably harvested or humanely raised. 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. 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 Get involved, the world is run by those who show up. The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) US philosopher, poet, essayist. Society and Solitude, "Farming," 1870. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls who live under tyranny. -- Thomas Jefferson A water bearer in China had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do. After 2 years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself. This crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house." The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there are flowers only on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, and I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house!" 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 Man is the missing link between apes and human beings. Konrad Lorenz, Nobel Laureate a man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. Albert Camus We are unconcerned but not indifferent. Inscription on Man Ray's gravestone I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature.....Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make half the world fools and half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the world. Thomas Jefferson "From each according to their ability to each according to their need" Karl Marx - "Critique of the Gotha Program" 1875 "The purpose of agriculture is not the production of food, but the perfection of human beings" Masanobu Fukuoka - "One Straw Revolution" 1978 "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." Gandhi The small landholders are the most precious part of a state -Thomas Jefferson There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. The people are to be taken in very small doses. The big thieves hang the little ones. The deeper we look into nature, the more we realize that it is full of life and... that we are united with all life that is in nature. ~ Albert Schweitzer "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." ~ John Muir Remember God created the world, but the Devil is the one keeping it active' Bob Dylan "Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action. Love, and you will know the blessings of it. Keep away from the authority who tells you what love is and what it is not. No authority knows and he who knows cannot tell. Love, and there is understanding." -- Krishnamurti More Sayings The question of the century is: How best can we shift to a culture of permanence, both for ourselves and for the biosphere that sustains us? -- Edward O. Wilson I seem to recall a particular Virginia native (?) son observing, in 1787, "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country. --Thomas Jefferson "The safest road to Hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." -- C. S. Lewis As the Zen master said to the hot dog vendor, "Make me one with everything." "Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." -- Thomas Henry Huxley "Tyranny is any political system (whether absolute monarchy or fascism or communism) that does not recognize individual rights (which necessarily include property rights). The over-throw of a political system by force is justified only when it is directed against tyranny; it is an act of self-defense against those who rule by force. For example, the American Revolution." -- Ayn Rand "Freedom is just chaos with better lighting." -- Alan Dean Foster "Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator & dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the 1st time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions, & you'll learn that man's mind is the root of all the goods produced & of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth." -- Ayn Rand 1957 _Atlas Shrugged_ pg 410 "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." -- George Bernard Shaw If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner. -- Frederic Bastiat "The test of tolerance is not so much 'accepting' & 'validating' all cultures different from one's own, but rather living at peace with those with whom one disagrees most vehemently, cooperating with those whose claims we may detest, & defending the rights of those whom we regard as fundamentally wrong." -- James Davison Hunter & Carl Bowman 1994 _Before the Shooting Begins_ "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams "Aided by a little sophistry on the words 'general welfare', [they claim] a right to do not only the acts to effect that which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think or pretend will be for the general welfare." -- Thomas Jefferson 1825 to W. Giles "No man's life or treasure are safe while the legislature meets." -- Thomas Jefferson Freedom can be lost as surely tax by tax, regulation by regulation, as it can be bullet by bullet, missile by missile. "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed" -- Noah Webster "A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate." -- Thomas Jefferson 1774 _Rights of British America_ "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." -- James Madison "A moral code impossible to practice, a code that demands imperfection or death, has taught you to dissolve all ideas in fog, to permit no firm definitions, to regard any concept as approximate & any rule of conduct as elastic, to hedge on any principle, to compromise on any value, to take the middle of any road." -- Ayn Rand "Someone asked me what the influence of Mises was in Washington. I answered, 'There is none; there is, however, an indication that they understand the concept of rent.'" --- Ron Paul "Reason and Persuasion are hallmarks of the civil society; Faith and Force are attributes of the primitive and political society" "Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -- William Pitt "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." -- George Bernard Shaw "So long as the power-seekers clung to the basic premises of the welfare state, holding need as the criterion of rewards, logic forced them, step by step, to champion the interests of the less & less productive... until they reached the ultimate dead end of turning from the role of champions of 'honest toil' to the role of champions of open parasitism, parasitism on principle, parasitism as a 'right'." -- Ayn Rand "A PreView" _The Ayn Rand Letter_ "The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which once entered is scarcely to be restrained from reaching, successively, every article of property and produce." -- Thomas Jefferson "I'll take unequal justice to equal injustice any day." "Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom; socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." -- Alexis de Tocqueville "Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned." -- Ayn Rand "The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills." -- Thomas Jefferson 1776-10 "For the word 'we' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, & crushes all beneath it, & that which is white & that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages." -- Ayn Rand 1937/1946 _Anthem_ pg 112 "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own." -- The Prisoner "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams "Every person who puts money into the hands of a 'government' (so called), puts into its hands a sword which will be used against him, to extort more money from him, and also to keep him in subjection to its arbitrary will." -- Lysander Spooner "In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom... Make no mistake; all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S." -- William Burroughs "Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary... It not only divides states and churches, it divides families; aye, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine." -- Henry D. Thoreau, 1849 "Resistance to Civil Government" "Once you disarm the people, the Constitution isn't worth the paper it's printed on." --- Will Blumentritt "Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage." -- H. L. Mencken "Government should be concerned with anti-social conduct, not with utterances." -- Justice William Orville Douglas "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there." -- Clare Boothe Luce "For the word 'we' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, & crushes all beneath it, & that which is white & that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages." -- Ayn Rand 1937/1946 _Anthem_ pg 112 "Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary... It not only divides states and churches, it divides families; aye, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine." -- Henry D. Thoreau, 1849 "Resistance to Civil Government" "Elections amount to no more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom." -- L. Neil Smith "Voters think Washington is a whorehouse and every four years they get to elect a new piano player." -- Peggy Noonan "I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation." -- William Lloyd Garrison, _The Liberator_ (1831) "In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current." --- Thomas Jefferson "A man who has nothing he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of men better than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever- renewing fight...human beings must be willing...to do battle for the one against the other." -- John Stuart Mill "A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate." -- Thomas Jefferson 1774 _Rights of British America_ "The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind & produced by his effort... Since knowledge, thinking, & rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual, man's survival requires that those who think be free of the interference of those who don't. Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind." -- Ayn Rand "Never compromise principle, not even on special occasions." --- Robert Bitzer (quoted by Marcia Pearce; quoted in Diane Dreher 1996 _The Tao of Personal Leadership_ pg 221) "The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." -- George Washington "Being an elected Libertarian is like being a designated driver in a bar." --- Michael Emerling Cloud "Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." -- Noah Webster "Aided by a little sophistry on the words 'general welfare', [they claim] a right to do not only the acts to effect that which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think or pretend will be for the general welfare." -- Thomas Jefferson 1825 to W. Giles "When men are caught in the trap of non-objective law, when their work, future & livelihood are at the mercy of a bureaucrat's whim, when they have no way of knowing what unknown 'influence' will crack down on them for which unspecified offense, fear becomes their basic motive... and compromise, conformity, staleness, dullness, the dismal grayness of the middle of the road are all that can be expected of them. Independent thinking does not submit to bureaucratic edicts, originality does not follow 'public policies', integrity does not petition for a license, heroism is not fostered by fear, creative genius is not summoned forth at the point of a gun. Non-objective law is the most effective weapon of human enslavement: its victims become its enforcers & enslave themselves." -- Ayn Rand "The free state offers what a police state denies -- the privacy of the home, the dignity & peace of mind of the individual." -- William O. Douglas 1953 "Tyranny is any political system (whether absolute monarchy or fascism or communism) that does not recognize individual rights (which necessarily include property rights). The over-throw of a political system by force is justified only when it is directed against tyranny; it is an act of self-defense against those who rule by force. For example, the American Revolution." -- Ayn Rand "There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly." -- Henry D. Thoreau, 1849 "Resistance to Civil Government" "Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others." -- Edward Abbey "The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills." -- Thomas Jefferson 1776-10 "I'm not interested in running for President. I'm not even interested in _being_ President. I'm interested in living in a free society. And I don't want it to happen just before I die." --- Harry Browne Most of the presidential candidates' economic packages involve 'tax breaks,' which is when the government, amid great fanfare, generously decides not to take quite so much of your income. In other words, these candidates are trying to buy your votes with your own money. -- Dave Barry "When men are caught in the trap of non-objective law, when their work, future & livelihood are at the mercy of a bureaucrat's whim, when they have no way of knowing what unknown 'influence' will crack down on them for which unspecified offense, fear becomes their basic motive... and compromise, conformity, staleness, dullness, the dismal grayness of the middle of the road are all that can be expected of them. Independent thinking does not submit to bureaucratic edicts, originality does not follow 'public policies', integrity does not petition for a license, heroism is not fostered by fear, creative genius is not summoned forth at the point of a gun. Non-objective law is the most effective weapon of human enslavement: its victims become its enforcers & enslave themselves." -- Ayn Rand The principle of voluntary government financing rests on the following premises: that the government is *not* the owner of the citizens' income &, therefore, cannot hold a blank check on that income -- that the nature of the proper governmental services must be constitutionally defined & delimited, leaving the government no power to enlarge the scope of its services at its own arbitrary discretion. Consequently, the principle of voluntary government financing regards the government as the servant, not the ruler, of the citizens -- as an *agent* who must be paid for his services, not as a benefactor whose services are gratuitous, who dispenses something for nothing." -- Ayn Rand "I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation." -- William Lloyd Garrison, _The Liberator_ (1831) "In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place." -- Mahatma Gandhi "Therein lie the seeds of a great deception. The professional politicians see the _res publica_ in terms of votes, ordinary people in terms of justice. For the 'real' nation, democracy matters less than the rule of law: the first is the form, the second the substance. When the ex-colonial peoples received independence, they thought they were being given justice: all they got was the right to elect politicians." -- Paul Johnson, _Modern Times_ (1983) "A moral code impossible to practice, a code that demands imperfection or death, has taught you to dissolve all ideas in fog, to permit no firm definitions, to regard any concept as approximate & any rule of conduct as elastic, to hedge on any principle, to compromise on any value, to take the middle of any road." -- Ayn Rand "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams "No man's life or treasure are safe while the legislature meets." -- Thomas Jefferson "Evading the difference between production & looting, they called the business-man a robber. Evading the difference between freedom & compulsion, they called him a slave driver. Evading the difference between reward & terror, they called him an exploiter. Evading the difference between pay-checks & guns, they called him an autocrat. Evading the difference between trade & force, they called him a tyrant. The most crucial issue they had to evade was the difference between the earned & the un-earned." -- Ayn Rand 1961 _For the New Intellectual_ "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves." -- Henry David Thoreau "There is no more subtle means of transforming the basic concepts of our government, or shifting from the preeminence of individual rights, to the preeminence of government wishes, than is afforded by redefinition of 'general welfare', as that term is used to define the Government's power of seizures... In essence the claim is that if slums exist the Government may seize, redevelop & sell all the property in any area it may select as appropriate, so long as the area includes the slum area. This amounts to a claim on the part of the authorities for unreviewable power to seize & sell whole sections of the city." -- DC District Court 1953 "The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." -- George Washington Knowledge, all knowledge, must be learned. And before in can be learned it must be discovered. That includes knowledge of rights. Rick Pasotto "The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." ---Zeno (335-263 B.C.) And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. -- Ambrose Bierce Le chat est toujours vivant dans son coeur. "In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place." -- Mahatma Gandhi "The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which once entered is scarcely to be restrained from reaching, successively, every article of property and produce." -- Thomas Jefferson 'Every day the intelligent person learns something new, but every day the wise person gives up some certainty' The Buddha. If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb Ben Franklin said, "Experience keeps a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other." He reported to Ma Tsu and said : - Please, judge . Ma Tzu said : - How big is the bundle of branches ? Replied : - I don't know how big it is. Ma Tzu said : - You are very strong. The monk said : - Why do you tell that ? Ma Tsu said : - You came far away from Nam Nha.c, and bring back a stack of woods, you must have a good strength. Buddha said "When you stop believing in me, you will become me" From: sumedokin Without suffering, without illusions, without ego, there is no path. It is when we experience something "missing", something "wrong" that we look for perfection. Ultimatly, our illusions *are* the path. Perfection is present when suffering, illusions are overcome. May all be Buddha /nikodemus "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." -- Niels Bohr "I study war so that my children may study peace and my grandchildren may study poetry." -- John Adams "Liberty of thought is the life of the soul." -- Voltaire "They who can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin "Those who are unwilling to study history are doomed to repeat its mistakes" - Winston Churchill Blessed are those who hear the words of this prophecy ... for the time is near. Revelation Chapter 1 Verse 3 "Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others." -- Edward Abbey Ben Franklin said, "Experience keeps a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other." "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." -- Niels Bohr "I study war so that my children may study peace and my grandchildren may study poetry." -- John Adams "Liberty of thought is the life of the soul." -- Voltaire "They who can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin "Those who are unwilling to study history are doomed to repeat its mistakes" "Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do." - - RG Collingwood "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse." - - Sophocles Genius is initiative on fire. -- Holbrook Jackson.
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