...is worth overdoing. That was their mantra.

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Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.
--Carl Sagan

We have the wolf by the ears,
and we can neither hold him,
nor safely let him go.
Justice is in one scale,
and self preservation is in the other.
---Thomas Jefferson -Apr. 22, 1820

The environment we're used to is designed to sustain us. We live like fish in an aquarium. Food comes mysteriously down, oxygen bubbles up. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo we call civilization. Then we go into nature, where we are least among equals with all other creatures. There we are put to the test. Most of us sleep through the ( Read more... )

It sounds cruel, but survivors laugh and play, and even in the most horrible situations--perhaps especially in those situations--they continue to laugh and play. To deal with reality you first much recognize it as such...and play puts a person in touch with his environment, while laughter makes the feeling of being threatened manageable ( Read more... )

Down to their innate molecular core,
cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed,
scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
--Siddhardtha Mukherjee in The Emperor of All Maladies

http://www.resilience.org/
Looks like a great forum for the effort to build resilient communities.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one that is most responsive to change.
--Charles Darwin

Great Mercola article here on identifying which of the weeds in your back yard are EDIBLE for making salads or green smoothies.

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