Astrup Family Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Thermophilic composting requires no electricity and therefore no coal combustion, no acid rain, no nuclear power plants, no nuclear waste, no petrochemicals and no consumption of fossil fuels. The composting process produces no waste, no pollutants and no toxic by-products. Thermophilic composting of humanure can be carried out century after century, millennium after millennium, with no stress on our ecosystems, no unnecessary consumption of resources and no garbage or sludge for our landfills. And all the while it will produce a valuable resource necessary for our survival while preventing the accumulation of dangerous pathogenic waste. — Joseph Jenkins

To be forgotten by the one to whom you never forget is the worst thing ever happens. — Na

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. — Robert Burns

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. — Henry David Thoreau

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

They had well-fed faces and laughter that was made cruel by its context the way a gem could be made ugly by being set in tin. — George R R Martin

As you get older, the ability to change becomes a very rare thing. You'll see. — Andersen Prunty

There is no theory that would guide us through interplantary space to another world even if we could control our departure from the earth; there is no means of carrying the large amount oxygen, water, and food that would be necessary for such a long journey; and there is not known way of easing our ether ship down on the surface of another world, if we could get there. — Forest Ray Moulton

I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level. — Aaron Rodgers

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. — John Adams

We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

and if they were both outcast for the same reason, they might at least have the pleasure of each other's society for compensation. — Naomi Novik