It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. ForbesBe not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander PopeWhen men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Joseph AddisonEven after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaExtinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl SaganMost people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.
John C. MaxwellPeople are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
Bill GatesOur daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.
Nelson MandelaA conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. RooseveltWhen I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.
Maya AngelouEven when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
AristotleThose who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
Desmond TutuAgriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel JohnsonThe nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Franklin D. RooseveltIt’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
Desmond TutuWe shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert EinsteinThe farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.
Will RogersI always love going on a safari drive whenever I visit Ulusaba Private Game Reserve in South Africa. I’ve been fortunate to see so many incredible animals over the years, and each time, it’s completely different. Following Ulusaba’s pack of wild dogs is my highlight.
Richard BransonWhat is a farm but a mute gospel?
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
Steve JobsI love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It’s on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole.
Richard BransonOne thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
Franklin D. RooseveltNo sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac AsimovLife belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn’t speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
Fidel CastroWhat is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.
Terry PratchettMost of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
James BaldwinIn my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
Desmond TutuI will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.
Nelson MandelaAdapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus AureliusI definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.
Lando NorrisEven with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.
Christopher HitchensMan is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
Carl JungIllinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
Abraham LincolnOnce you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
Brian EnoI mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
Desmond TutuAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
James MadisonPlayers who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.
Jurgen KloppThey that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis BaconWhen a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
Desmond TutuThe dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham LincolnChange in all things is sweet.
AristotleWe would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F. KennedyAny good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
Denzel WashingtonIn the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry ‚Native passes‘ issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.
Nelson MandelaThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan WattsThere are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
Bill GatesIf there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
Nelson MandelaIt may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret ThatcherYou can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor RooseveltObserve constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus AureliusIn war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston ChurchillI can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.
Frank OceanThe mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMiddle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.
Bill GatesHaitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.
Noam ChomskyFailed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
John C. MaxwellThe world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
Dwight D. EisenhowerPersonal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.
Ernest HemingwayI think the F2 tyres are probably one of the hardest things to adapt to, harder than the Formula One Pirellis were to get used to.
Lando Norris