#organ

Organic is something we can all partake of and benefit from. When we demand organic, we are demanding poison-free food. We are demanding clean air. We are demanding pure, fresh water. We are demanding soil that is free to do its job and seeds that are free of toxins. We are demanding that our children be protected from harm. We all need to bite the bullet and do what needs to be done—buy organic whenever we can, insist on organic, fight for organic and work to make it the norm. We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated. ↗

— Maria Rodale

#diet #nutrition #organic #diet

As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#organic #quality #food

The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals,water, and air;shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife. ↗

— Toby Hemenway

#food-security #gardening #organic #permaculture #provision

Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value. ↗

— Melissa V. Harris-Perry

#forgiveness #humanism #shame #forgiveness

And without forgiveness, there is never any peace. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganville-vampires #peace #forgiveness

As Lynn writes: "What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the right way and use the right code, and I no longer have free will. I will do anything that person requests. I hate them for that. Nothing else is as bad as knowi that I am always out of control; knowing that I am still a laboratory experiment, a puppet whose strings are hidden from ever but my handlers, and I don't yet know how to break free. p216

— Lynn Hersha

#control #free-will #government-abuse #manipulation #military

Michael might have become a vampire, but watching him stand outside in the night air, breathing in his freedom Claire thought that was as human as it could get. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#the-dead-girls-dance #freedom

Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganville #funny

Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganvillevampires #funny

Perv." He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point? ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganvillevampires #funny