Do Good Say Good

Here are some of our favourite do-gooders from over the years. Enjoy!

"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself"

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I am a very avid believer in buying and eating organic if I can possible. I grow a lot of stuff. I an very serious about the kinds of foods that I partake of…If they are not produced organiccaly, they absorb a tremendous amount of not only the pesticides that they’re grown with, but also the chemical fertilizers that are in the ground…So, we have to pay attention to this, because I think to really, really treat your body well and your family’s bodies well, you have to start thinking a little bit more in the organic vein."

Martha Stewart

"Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development."


William Longgood

"Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it."

Thalassa Cruso

"Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization."

Sir Albert Howard (19th century agriculturist)

“Organic food is neither fad nor fashion – its about quality, family food at prices that don’t cost the earth.”

Spokesman, Asda UK

“If you’re not living on the edge you’re taking up too much room.”

Tony Foutz, American writer living in Ireland.

“Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in modern farming and a more environmentally sustainable system over the long term.”

David Suzuki

“Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce.”

Prince Charles

“Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”

Blaise Pascal

“Choose only one master — Nature.”

Rembrandt

“Great art picks up where nature ends.”

Mark Chagall

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

Bruce Lee

“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.”

Andre Agassi

“I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy.”

Cameron Diaz

“We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.”

David Suzuki

“I believe you make your day. You make your life.”

Brad Pitt

“How could I have been anyone other than me?”

Dave Matthews

“We all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.”

Tori Amos

“Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother’s face, her aspect and her attitude.”

Beck

“It’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”

Barack Obama

“I refuse to age disgracefully.”

Ben Harper

If I fall, I fall. I’ll rise up like anybody else.”

Ben Harper

“Now I know the difference from gold and brass.”

Ben Harper

“When one climbs a mountain, the focus is on each step.”

Dave Matthews

“You absolutely must plow forward.”

Augusten Burroughs

“We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?”

Robert Redford

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

Native American Proverb

“Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can’t taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie.

Astrid Alauda

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

“I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work.”

Frank Lloyd Wright