#grass

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#campaigns #efforts #elections #enormous #everything

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass. ↗

— David F. Houston

#feed #frequently #grass #however #lands

Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly. ↗

— Jim Hunt

#been #between #both #democratic #democratic party

We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#chance #change #children #environment #food

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic. ↗

— George Carlin

#hero #heroism #individualism #individuality #nature

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#box #broadcasting #carpet #grass #humanity

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#down #ethics #grass #grass roots #had

Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement. ↗

— John Boozman

#being #concerned #deficit #grassroots #i

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. ↗

— Hal Borland

#appreciate #grass #i #i can #knowing

Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating. ↗

— Lisa Ann Sandell

#beautiful #dull #face #grass #life