The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.

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Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

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Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

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Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

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I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.

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The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

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Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

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You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

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It is not an investment if it destroys the planet

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Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

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