“My buddy Alex Blumberg learned - he was very public about his learning process, and I know for a fact because we sat next to each other for many years, that he knew nothing about venture capital or seed rounds or "A" rounds or whatever you call them, and he had to really learn, like, pitch by pitch. He just screwed pitches up.” KnowsYearsFactsNextProcessRoundsSeedsSatVentureBuddyAlexLearning ProcessVenture Capital Author:David Plotz
“Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.” IfsKnowsWayWantFeelsChildrenImportantFactsGrowsEmotionHalfProduceReadyGardenSeedsSensesImpressionVersionsDietsSoilNot ReadyFertileKnowledge And WisdomFertile Soil Book:The house of life: Rachel Carson at work Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work
“The fact that we have to fight for something so essential to life as the integrity of seeds, speaks to the real drama of this present time: that we have to fight to preserve what is most fundamental and sacred to life.” RealFactsFightingSpeakIntegrityDramaEssentialsFundamentalsSacredSeedsPreservesPresent Time Author:Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
“The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long policy of the Rockefeller Foundation since the 1930's, when it funded Nazi eugenics research - i.e. mass-scale population reduction, and control of darker-skinned races by an Anglo-Saxon white elite. As some of these circles saw it, war as a means of population reduction was costly and not that efficient.” MeanLongWarFactsGovernmentWhiteRaceSawsPolicyMassResearchFoundationPopulationSpreadSeedsDecadesCirclesScalesEfficientElitesNaziRelentlessReductionEugenics1930sImplementationAnglo SaxonGenetically Modified Author:F. William Engdahl
“Two years ago, I was saying as I planted seeds in the garden, "I must believe in these seeds, that they fall into the earth and grow into flowers and radishes and beans." It is a miracle to me because I do not understand it. The very fact that they use glib technical phrases does not make it any less a miracle, and a miracle we all accept. Then why not accept God's miracles?” YearsBelieveDoeTwoFactsUseEarthFallGrowsAcceptingFlowerYears AgoGardenMiraclePlantSeedsPhrasesTwo YearsWhy NotBeansTwo Years AgoRadishes Author:Dorothy Day