Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost — and the time to account for past sins is approaching.

We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

Velvet Glove,
that you love, obey, and trust,
then an Iron Fist
comes along and then you're crushed
into reality.
Why's it you felt deceived?
That they got you – spiritually, mentally, and physically.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die.

People respond to these disasters in terms of their own experience. Unless the disaster has struck them personally, their circumstances, their environment, it is dismissed as a superficial thing.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

There is something refreshingly ironic about people lying on the beach contracting skin cancer in an attempt to acquire a purely illusory appearance of good health, while germ-laden medical waste washes up on the sand all around them. (entitled Surf's Down Forever, p. 207)

[http://www.onweb.org/archive/features/shiva/shiva.html An interview with Vandana Shiva]

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

[http://www.vshiva.net Vandana Shiva's website]

Those [forest] reserves are not merely for the convenience and benefit of the people near them, but they are the property of the nation and for its greatest good. It is unreasonable to suppose that they should be destroyed or imperiled for any local convenience, as a mere present to men engaged in one local industry.

An art thief is a man who takes pictures.

?You like irony now too?”
“Irony tastes good. Like sausage.”

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

[http://www.zmag.org/bios/homepage.cfm?authorID=90 Vandana Shiva's ZMag homepage]

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?