Quotes About Organic

Sometimes the large scale organic farmer looks like someone trying to practice industrial agriculture with one hand tied behind his back.

perhaps by sitting down to enjoy one of the microwavable organic TV dinners(four words I never expected to see conjoined)stacked in the frozen food case.

The final standards do a good job of setting the bar for a more environmentally responsible kind of farming but, as perhaps was inevitable as soon as bureaucratic and industrial thinking was brought to bear, many of the philosophical values embodied in the word organic - the sorts of values expressed by Albert Howard - did not survive the federal rule making process.

All told, growing food organically uses about a third less fossil fuel than growing it conventionally, though that savings disappears if the compost is not produced on site or nearby.

A few years ago, at a conference on organic agriculture in California, a corporate organic grower suggested to a small farmer struggling to survive in the competitive world of industrial organic that you should really try to develop a niche to distinguish yourself in the market. Holding his fury in check, the small farmer replied as levelly as he could manage: I believe I developed that niche twenty years ago. It's called 'organic.' And now you, sir, are sitting on it.

Si yo fuese un dictador dispuesto a controlar la prensa nacional, Organic Gardening sería la primera publicación que acallaría, porque es la más subversiva. Creo que los horticultores orgánicos encabezan un esfuerzo serio por salvar el mundo, cambiando la disposición del hombre hacia él para alejarse del estado colectivo, centralista y superindustrial y alcanzar una relación más sencilla, real y de tú a tú con la propia tierra.

Also, organic cows, like Rosie the organic chicken, are never fed corn that contains residues of atrazine, the herbicide commonly sprayed on American cornfields. The tiniest amount of this chemical (0.1 part per billion) has been shown to change the sex of frogs. There's been no study to show what it does to children.

Yet the organic label itself—like every other such label in the supermarket—is really just an imperfect substitute for direct observation of how a food is produced, a concession to the reality that most people in an industrial society haven't the time or the inclination to follow their food back to the farm, a farm which today is apt to be, on average, fifteen hundred miles away.

I don't believe in putting petroleum or preservatives on my skin. Over time, you kind of just want to go back to basics.

Coconut oil. I rub it through my hair, all over my skin, all over my body. Natural's the better way to go.

I wear a lot of makeup on set, so I like my skin care to be natural.

I love it when the market reacts naturally to events. It's like a cat coughing up a fur ball.

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

To me, the advantage of the recorder is that it is so natural. I love the fact that it is just a piece of wood, that there are almost no mechanics involved.

What sets the carbon atom apart is that it is shamelessly promiscuous.

Passionate kissing alone, according to one study, results in the transfer of up to one billion bacteria from one mouth to another, along with about 0.7 milligrams of protein, 0.45 milligrams of salt, 0.7 micrograms of fat, and 0.2 micrograms of "miscellaneous organic compounds" (that is, bits of food)

Typically a cell will contain some 20,000 different types of protein, and of these about 2,000 types will each be represented by at least 50,000 molecules.

DNA is, as it were, especially unalive. It is "among the most nonreactive, chemically inert molecules in the living world

Even more appallingly, in the United States 80 percent of antibiotics are fed to farm animals , mostly to fatten them. Fruit growers can also use antibiotics to combat bacterial infections in their crops. In consequence, most Americans consume secondhand antibiotics in their food (including even some foods labeled as organic) without knowing

As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is delight in form, and form is the key to organic life, since no living thing can exist without it, so that every work of art, including tragedy, expresses the joy of existence.

Society exists to transcend itself, and the progressive force of all evolution is the poetic imagination, the teleological instinct that moves with the organic principle of all evolution, to take possession of new forms of life, new fields of consciousness.

But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever. Even when you shake them out, they've left permanent wrinkles in the fabric of your soul.

Nomenclature is one of the most important prerequisites for answering organic chemistry questions on Test Day; if you don't know which chemical compound the question is asking about, it's hard to get the answer right! That's

We have been born into a certain Culture, at a certain phase of its organic development, we have certain gifts. These condition the earthly task which we must perform. The metaphysical task is beyond any conditioning, for it would have been the same in any age anywhere. The earthly task is merely the form of the higher task, its organic vehicle.