“Sustainability is when if you keep doing what you’re doing you’ll be able to keep doing what you’re doing.”
Carol Venolia
more infosource: quoted by John Abrams in The Company We Keep (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2005), 158.
category: environment, sustainability
medium: Memoir
“My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.”
Ruth Reichl
more infosource: “Questions for Ruth Reichl: Clearing the Table,” interview by Deborah Solomon, The New York Times, October 15, 2009.
category: earth, food, living, sustainability
medium: interview
“I aim for appropriate self-reliance, not for independence. Independence is for Neanderthals.”
Carol Deppe
more infosource: “Author Carol Deppe on Growing ‘Lots of Delicious Food for the Least Possible Work,'” Q&A by Makenna Goodman, Grist, October 18, 2010.
category: environment, independence, neanderthal, self-reliance, sustainability
medium: Q&A
via: Elisa Zazzera“The worm fattens on the apple, the young goose fattens on the wormy fruit, the man fattens on the young goose, the worm awaits the man.”
E. B. White
more infosource: “Cold Weather,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 345.
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category: apple, compost, cycle of life, farm, fruit, goose, nature, recycle, sustainability, worm
medium: essay
notes: White wrote this essay in January 1943.
“After some years in the country, during which time I have experienced the satisfactions of working the land, building the soil, and making brown into green, I am beginning to believe that our new world which will open up after the war should be constructed round a repopulated rural America, so that a reasonably large proportion of the population shall participate in the culture of the earth.”
E. B. White
more infosource: “A Week in November,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 334.
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category: brown, country, earth, farm, green, land, rural, soil, sustainability
medium: essay
notes: White wrote this essay in November 1942.
“The land, even though it has been mistreated, can still support the population—that we know. The question is whether the population has the temperament and the ingenuity to support the land—that is, to return its goodness, not just sap it.”
E. B. White
more infosource: “Farm Paper,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 145.
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category: farm, give back, goodness, land, population, sustainability
medium: essay
notes: White wrote this essay in February 1940.
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