Ecovillages Quotes & Sayings

The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated the turn of the year from the death of winter to the life of spring - the winter solstice. As this was an auspicious change the festival was a very joyous one ... The giving of presents and the burning of candles characterized it. Among the Northern people the lighting of a huge log in the houses of the great and with appropriate ceremonies was a feature. — Samuel L. Jackson

Her Grace is all she has -
And that, so least displays -
One Art to recognize, must be,
Another Art, to praise. — Emily Dickinson

Wisdom is a tree of slow growth; the rings around its trunk are earthly lives, and the grooves between are the periods between lives. Who grieves that an acorn is slow in becoming an oak? — Elsa Barker

happiness comes again if you let it. — Adam Silvera

I think there has always been a strong crossover between the household- and community-level design in permaculture. From the beginnings of permaculture in the 1970s, there was a close connection to the 'back to the land' movement and the counterculture. Within that broad movement, international communities and ecovillages were major themes. — Juliana Birnbaum Fox

Creating music to fit the marketplace, so that music can be heard? If ever I thought that I even came close to catering to the marketplace, or designing my productions and my music to cater to what is currently fashionable, I would sell shoes for a living. For me, the marketplace can rot in hell. I will do music for the love of music and for the love of people who listen to music, and absolutely nothing else will drive me. — Daniel Lanois

People my age don't always know where their music comes from. — Isaac Hanson

Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished. — Leslie Nielsen

When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them. — Robert Rodriguez

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like. — Vernon Howard

By giving, you get, if you don't give, don't expect. — Debasish Mridha

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives ... men have stronger muscles than women. — Bertrand Russell

The only proof of God in the world was color. Everything would have worked the same without it. So why would the world have been made so full of color if there wasn't a God? — Tony D'Souza

Cultures throughout the world and throughout history that developed stable, sustainable relationships with nature did so through observation - a primary principle in permaculture. — Juliana Birnbaum Fox

I discover vision, not as a "thinking about seeing," to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. — Mae West

The columns of mounted men moved forward, passed out through the gates of the Palace of Karma, turned off the roadway and headed up the slope that lay to the southeast of the city of Mahartha, comrades blazing like the dawn at their back. — Roger Zelazny