#stain

Create the change you seek in the world. Be an ecopreneur. Launch your dream green business. ↗

— John D. Ivanko

#green-business #social-sector #sustainable-living #business

Honestly," he said with a grin, "how would that have worked? Oh, hello dream lover. Would you drink some of my blus so I won't murder you in front of all these nice people?" ↗

— Delilah S. Dawson

#dreams

No speech can stain what is noble by nature. ↗

— Sophocles

#noble #speech #stain

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#sustainability #work #food

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cannot #faults #friend #friendship #him

He was watching me, and he chuckled. "Do you know how a man tames a wolf?" he asked me. "No," I said. "You get some clothing that you've been wearing for a while, and you toss it in with her. In the cage or the cavern where she sleeps. That first one, she rips up, shreds it to nothing. The second one, she just mouths it a bit, gets a taste. Inhales, like you're doing there. The third but of clothing, she starts dragging it around, loving on it, sleeping with it. And then you've got her under your spell. She's got the scent of you, wants to keep it around. She'll follow you everywhere." "Are you calling me a wolf?" I asked. "Are you calling me a man?" he said. ↗

— Delilah S. Dawson

#love

He sighed. "Look, love, I know I seem like a tactical genius, but really, I'm just a magician who occasionally kills a bunny or drives a train. ↗

— Delilah S. Dawson

#love

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#community #environmentalism #japan #sustainability #art

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#community #environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#community #environmentalism #gardening #green #japan