SENECA ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE LIFE IS LONG IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT PENGUIN BOOKS GREAT IDEAS TRANSLATED BY C.D.N. COSTA 1997 PART I Seneca: c. 5 BC –AD 65 Chapter 1: On the Shortness of Life Most human beings, Paulinus, (a friend of Seneca’s) complain about the meanness …
WHERE I LIVED AND WHAT I LIVED FOR HENRY DAVID THOREAU GREAT IDEAS PENGUIN BOOKS 1854/2005 PART 1II Where I lived, and What I lived For At a certain stage of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. I have thus surveyed the country on …
WHERE I LIVED AND WHAT I LIVED FOR HENRY DAVID THOREAU GREAT IDEAS PENGUIN BOOKS 1854/2005 PART 1I Economy (Cont.) If I should attempt to tell how I have desired to spend my life in years past, it would probably surprise those of my readers who are somewhat acquainted with its actual history; it …
WHERE I LIVED AND WHAT I LIVED FOR HENRY DAVID THOREAU GREAT IDEAS PENGUIN BOOKS 1854/2005 PART 1 Economy When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone in the woods, a mile from my neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of …
Book Review Introduction In Part 2 of Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed we learn that: “Almost all of the next one billion of net global growth will take place in urban slums. What will these conditions breed for the future? Hopelessness, crime, extremism, terrorism? Who will deal with these chickens when they …
Book Review Introduction In part 1 of Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed we learn that: “Slow Food, the movement that has put the culture of growing and eating good, healthy, diverse food at the heart of social, political, and economic transformation, brought together 5,000 members from 1,200 food communities in 130 countries.” …
AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL BRUCE LANSDALE MEMORIAL PART VII Introduction On February 1, 1990 Bruce Lansdale was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Agriculture by the Faculty of Agriculture of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. This part of the Bruce Lansdale Memorial is the Introduction by Professor Lucas Ananikas, Chairman of the Department of Agricultural …
FARMERS OF FORTY CENTURIES OR PERMANENT AGRICULTURE IN CHINA, KOREA AND JAPAN F. H. KING, D. Sc. RODALE PRESS 1911 F. H. KING, D. Sc. F. H. King was formerly Professor of Agricultural Physics in the University of Wisconsin and Chief of Division of Soil Management, US Department of Agriculture. He was author of …
AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL BRUCE LANSDALE MEMORIAL PART V Introduction In re-making the American Farm School to fit the post-war era, Bruce Lansdale knew that he could not do it alone, especially in a world where the values on which the School was founded found little support from the general public. The success of the institution …
THE FIVE LESSONS OF LIFE BILL ADAMS RIDER 2000 PART V Chapter 7: The Philosophy of the Amchi It was six in the morning, the day after my meeting with Sangratan in Chinie, and again I was setting out to meet him. This time he had promised to teach me about the Amchi, and …
