#cult

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#change #common #cultures #different #different cultures

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#before #being #determined #discovery #divided

If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#booming #context #could #culture #detroit

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#after #because #books #both #charged

So you are going to become a part time student and strive to achieve that optimal marriage between the tough and demanding real world and the higher plains of theoretical thought. ↗

— Bryon

#melbourne-university #part-timers #marriage

Unquestionably, the mission in Iraq has become more dangerous and difficult. ↗

— Ron Kind

#dangerous #difficult #iraq #mission #more

. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources, and . . . world famine could be totally relieved if we devoted the same resources of lawn culture to food culture in poor areas. These facts are before us. Thus, we can look at lawns, like double garages and large guard dogs, [and Humvees and SUVs] as a badge of willful waste, conspicuous consumption, and lack of care for the earth or its people. Most lawns are purely cosmetic in function. Thus, affluent societies have, all unnoticed, developed an agriculture which produces a polluted waste product, in the presence of famine and erosion elsewhere, and the threat of water shortages at home. The lawn has become the curse of modern town landscapes as sugar cane is the curse of the lowland coastal tropics, and cattle the curse of the semi-arid and arid rangelands. It is past time to tax lawns (or any wasteful consumption), and to devote that tax to third world relief. I would suggest a tax of $5 per square metre for both public and private lawns, updated annually, until all but useful lawns are eliminated. ↗

— Bill Mollison

#food #peak-oil #permaculture #postcarbon #food

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever. ↗

— Ralph Kiner

#anyone #baseball #difficult #difficult things #ever

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#affected #afford #aids #been #bit

If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acre field, then the field will support five to ten people each investing an average of less than one hour of labour per day. But if the field were turned over to pasturage, or if the grain were fed to cattle, only one person could be supported per quarter acre. Meat becomes a luxury food when its production requires land which could provide food directly for human consumption. This has been shown clearly and definitely. Each person should ponder seriously how much hardship he is causing by indulging in food so expensively produced. ↗

— Masanobu Fukuoka

#conservation #consumption #farming #food #food-security