Quote from: ShelleyI think the last time we made a chicken pot pie that was really successful, it wasn't your grandma's recipe. It was one that involved ice water.
^ Try a different recipe next time, maybe.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: ShelleyI think the last time we made a chicken pot pie that was really successful, it wasn't your grandma's recipe. It was one that involved ice water.
Quote from: p21if people merely become caught up in reacting, moving to the left or to the right, depending on conditions, the result is only more activity. The non-moving point of origin [Dare I say, The Timeless Way of?] [..] is passed over, unnoticed. I believe that even "returning-to-nature" and anti-pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the overdevelopment of the present age.
Quote from: p18Human beings with their tampering do something wrong, leave the damage unrepaired, and when the adverse results accumulate, work with all their might to correct them. What the corrective actions appear to be successful, they come to view these measures as splendid accomplishments. People do this over and over again. It is as if a fool were to stomp on and break the tiles of his roof. Then when it starts to rain and the ceiling begins to rot away, he hastily climbs up to mend the damage, rejoicing in the end that he has accomplished a miraculous solution.
Quote from: p15Toward a Do-Nothing Farming
The usual way to go about developing a method is to ask "How about trying this?" or "How about trying that?" bringing in a variety of techniques on upon the other.
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My way was the opposite[..] making the work easier instead of harder. "How about not doing this? How about not doing that?"
Quote from: p13Instead of offering a hundred explanations, would not practicing this philosophy by the best way?
Quote from: p13My method of "do-nothing" farming began with this thought.
Quote from: Wendell Berry (preface, xii)Mr. Fukuoka started as a laboratory scientist [and eventually moved his work from the laboratory to the farm:] "[..] I decided to give my thoughts a form, to put them into practice [..] To spend my life farming . . . this was the course upon which I settled." And he says: "Instead of offering a hundred explanations, would not practicing this philosophy be the best way?"
QuoteThis translation has been a communal effort by the student workers on the mountain.
Quote from: Look at me, Leo BenedictusLonely people lack attention that is positive and accurate, in short.
So why don't they ask for more? Because attention can be harvested only from the minds of other people, and high-quality attention won't come by force. "In anthropological terms, it's a gift economy," says Dr Amy Pollard of the Mental Health Foundation (MHF).
Quote from: Look at me, Leo Benedictus[RE: mass shootings]
The truth is that if you want the world's attention badly enough, you can have it tomorrow.
QuoteThe truth is that if you want the world's attention badly enough, you can have it tomorrow.