“Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.” WomenHundredPlantSlaveSufficientPalacesEmperorHousewifePower PlantsRoman Emperor Author:Margaret Mead
“At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive.” LittlesMadeRealThreeAnimalAliveProgressMysteryTenBirdHundredStructurePlantFishesSmallestSeventiesInsectsNinetyEightyDotsMarvellous Author:Hokusai
“We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.” PeopleKnowsWritingTryingYearsMayStillsEnoughBigsSeemsCareLastsSufferingBornRightsTroubleTreeProtectDiseaseHundredSickConstitutionBravePlantPaintTake CareCuresClimbsNo HopePlant A Tree Author:Linda Ellerbee
“It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And yet, the average American can name over a hundred corporate logos and ten plants. Is it a surprise that we have accepted a political system that grants personhood to corporations, and no status at all for wild rice and redwoods? Learning the names of plants and animals is a powerful act of support for them. When we learn their names and their gifts, it opens the door to reciprocity.” PoliticalNamesAnimalPowerfulSupportDoorsTenHundredConnectionsPlantSurpriseAverageAcceptedCorporateCorporationsGrantsRiceDisrespectPolitical SystemsReciprocityLogosPlants And AnimalsPersonhoodRedwoods Author:Robin Wall Kimmerer
“You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.” IfsKnowsGivingYearsBelieveReasonDiesMinutesSceneTenEqualGiving UpHundredPlantFinancialRoadside Author:Robert Plant
“If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.” IfsYearsChildrenInspiringPlansTreeTenHundredPlantProfoundEducateRicePlant A Tree Author:Confucius