RE: Jane Goodal-Thanksgiving-Harvest for Hope

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CONTINUUM)) Jane Goodall ~ Thanksgiving ~ Harvest for Hope

An moving and inspiring Thanksgiving Day Interview with Jane Goodall and Amy Goodman posted at

 

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/24/0740243 & mode=thread & tid=25

The video is quite touching and offers good "food for thought" as the holiday in the US approaches.

 

On this Thanksgiving Day, as we cook and share meals with friends and families, we bring you an interview with the renowned primatologist, Jane Goodall. Her latest book is Harvest for Hope : A Guide to Mindful Eating. Goodall, who is known for her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees and baboons, turns her attention to the food we eat and how it reaches our tables. In her book, Goodall examines the danger of corporate ownership of water and the patenting of seeds, the hazards of genetically modified foods and the existence of inhumane animal factories.--

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"Love is the only emotion

that expands intelligence."

Humberto Maturana

 

 

"Another world is not only possible,

she is on her way.

On a quiet

day, if you listen carefully,

you can hear her breathing."

Arundhati Roy

 

"Focus on where we want to end up

not on what we want to avoid!"

Paula Underwood Spencer from the Oneida tradition

 

 

"For me to be active in the cause of the people and of the earth

and just to be - is to be alive. There is no compartmentalization.

It's all one thing. It's not like I just exist to go into a little

room and write. People have that image of writers, that that's how

we live, but it's not really accurate, not the kind of writing that I do.

I know that what I write has a purpose, even if it's just for

me, if I'm just trying to lead myself out of a kind of darkness.

So it broadens everything, being active in the world.

You see the world. It's like, you know, I'm learning to paint now,

and what I realize, learning to paint, is that I'm learning to see.

And activism is like that. When you are active, and you must know this

so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more

you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to

another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too.

And there's no end to it."

Alice Walker

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"There are those who are trying to set fire to the world

We are in danger.

There is time only to work slowly.

There is no time not to love.

Deena Metzger, "Song"

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"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.

Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.

Do not believe in anything because it is spoken and rumored by many.

Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.

Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers or elders.

But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason,

and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all,

then accept it and live to it."

The Buddha, in the Kalama Sutra

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