Quote by Andrew Weil
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways tha

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. – Andrew Weil

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Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves dont create even more illness. – Andrew Weil

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Health
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We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation. – Andrew Weil

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environmental
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It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life. – Andrew Weil

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Food
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. – William Cowper

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gardening

My hobby is gardening, I love it, its my main hobby. I like being at home and Im very happy being in my house, I love cooking. – Susan Hampshire

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gardening

I am a particular fan of integrative exercise – that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on. – Andrew Weil

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gardening

In search of my mothers garden, I found my own. – Alice Walker

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gardening

Random Quotes

Political courage is not political suicide. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Courage

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. – Lamartine

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Broken Hearts

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. – John W. Gardner

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good

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. – J. Michael Straczynski

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Time