#pest

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. ↗

— William Blake

#breeds #desires #pestilence #who

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed. ↗

— Paul Engle

#christmas #christmas eve #eve #hand #i

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides? ↗

— Jerry Brown

#am #buying #coming #consumer #contact

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. ↗

— Robert Caro

#believe #clear #deepest #highest #history

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. ↗

— Pablo Casals

#care #deepest #feel #gives #i

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. ↗

— Willa Cather

#artist #best #character #creative #deepest

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#beings #capable #complete #deepest #fulfill

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#entire #fabric #her #longest #nature

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ↗

— Henry Clay

#character #courtesies #deepest #grateful #heart

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place. ↗

— David R. Brower

#chemicals #farming #fertilizer #first #fuel