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"Growing up in an ethnic family, food was always central. In the Jewish religion, on Friday nights you bring in the Sabbath – for us it wasn’t so much a religious occasion but more a ritualistic one."

"To look after me, Florrie had to leave her own family. Yet those black nannies came and went, and were considered disposable."

"Many white people of that apartheid-era have never really discussed that we were all raised by these loving black nannies."

"So when I suddenly looked at myself with this six inch ‘fro’ it made me feel like a newly born woman."

"Since starting OzHarvest I’ve repurposed my life, and that has allowed me to find my true calling. I’m not special; I’m not exceptional – if there’s a lesson to learn it’s that all of us have the ability and capacity to be the best we can be."

"Research shows that out of every five shopping bags of produce we buy, we throw one away; we waste one."

"Nurse no long grief, Lest the heart flower no more; Grief builds no barns; its plough Rusts at the door."

"Never allow the thoughtless to delcare That we have no tradition here!"

""I'm old Botany Bay; Stiff in the joints, Little to say.I am he Who paved the way, That you might walk At your ease to-day; [...] I split the rock; I felled the tree: The nation was — Because of me!"Old Taking the sun From day to day. ... Shame on the mouth That would deny The knotted hands That set us high!"

"I have no thunder in my words, Thunder is much too high; But I can see as far as birds, And feel the wind go by.And I can follow through the grass The darling-breasted quail; For, though things great in splendour mass, I choose the lesser grail."

"I span and Eve span, A thread to bind the heart of man!"

"I never knew how wide the dark, I never knew the depth of space, I never knew how frail a bark, How small is man within his place,Not till I heard the swans go by, Not till I marked their haunting cry, Not till, within the vague on high, I watched them pass across the sky. ..."

"Never admit the pain, Bury it deep; Only the weak complain. Complaint is cheap."

"We are the sons of Australia, Of the men who fashioned the land, We are the sons of the women Who walked with them, hand in hand; And we swear by the dead who bore us, By the heroes who blazed the trail, No foe shall gather our harvest, Or sit on our stockyard rail."

"Youth troubles over eternity; age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day."

"It was, it was a fairy man Who came to town today. "I'll make a cake for sixpence, If you will pay, will pay."I paid him with a sixpence, And with a penny, too; He made a cake of rainbows, And baked it in the dew. [...] He iced it with a moonbeam, He patterned it with play, And sprinkled it with star-dust From off the Milky Way."

"I have grown past hate and bitterness, I see the world as one; But though I can no longer hate, My son is still my son.All men at God's round table sit, And all men must be fed; But this loaf in my hand, This loaf is my son's bread."

"It's us two when it's morning, And us two when it's night; And us two when it's troubled, And us two when it's bright;And us two don't want nothing To make life good and true, And lovin'-sweet, and happy, While us two's got us two."

"It’s gettin’ bits o’ posies, ’N’ feelin’ mighty good; A-thrillin’ ’cause she loves you, An’ wond’rin’ why she should; [...] As if there’s nothin’ mattered, As if the world was good, As if the Lord was lookin’, An’ sort o’ understood."

"Moorangoo, the dove, in her high place mourned, And Mulloka, the Water Spirit, turned In his shade as he heard her weep, Sad as the lone that cries in his sleep At the sound of the gun, Asking for pity where pity was none."

"I am not very patient, Yet patient I must be With him beside my pillow And the babe upon my knee. [...] Strange that I was given Thoughts that soar to heaven, Yet must I sit and keep Children in their sleep!"

"Emptied of us the land, Ghostly our going, Fallen, like spears the hand Dropped in the throwing.We are the lost who went, Like the cranes, crying; Hunted, lonely, and spent, Broken and dying."

"I shall go as my father went, A thousand plans in his mind, With something still held unspent When death lets fall the blind.I shall go as my mother went, The ink still wet on the line: I shall pay no rust as rent For the house that is mine."

"Dominant western culture has systematically inferiorised, backgrounded and denied dependency on the whole sphere of reproduction and subsistence. This denial of dependency is a major factor in the perpetuation of the non-sustainable modes of using nature which loom as such a threat to the future of western society."

"The inferiorization of human qualities and aspects of life associated with necessity, nature and women—of nature-as-body, of nature-as-passion or emotion, of nature as the pre-symbolic, of nature-as-primitive, of nature-as-animal and of nature as the feminine—continues to operate to the disadvantage of women, nature and the quality of human life."

"One of the most common forms of denial of women and nature is what I will term backgrounding, their treatment as providing the background to a dominant, foreground sphere of recognized achievement or causation. This backgrounding of women and nature is deeply embedded in the rationality of the economic system and in the structures of contemporary society."

"In Back to Eden by Jethro Kloss he devotes half a page to every herb and he devotes 10 pages to cayenne pepper."

"Today in this lecture we're going to be looking at exercise often called The Forgotten remedy because many people don't exercise and it's one of the reasons I mentioned earlier in the week why doctors have to use mesh because the muscles are so weak and they're weak through lack of use, they're weak through lack of hydration, they're weak through... lack of proper nourishment... through not being able to rest at night... they're weak because we're not getting the sunshine to get the vitamin D to allow all the minerals into the cell... not getting enough not getting enough oxygen."

"How do you take it? you can begin with a quarter of a teaspoon in a little water, three times daily. If you take it with your meals it'll certainly help your digestion by boosting even more digestive enzymes"

"Cayenne pepper not only thins the blood, it strengthens the arterial walls so anyone who has had damage from all the things that we talked about that cause the damage they can be repaired, and cayenne pepper helps to repair that"

"The best heart herb is cayenne pepper... it stimulates the blood and the blood is the life of the flesh. Anything that stimulates blood is going to be good for the body. Cayenne pepper does three things...[1] It's a powerful blood thinner... if cayenne pepper is going through your through your arteries and your veins and it finds any bleeding [2] it'll seal the bleeding blood vessel. How come it can thin the blood and yet seal bleeding blood vessels? Well God said that he gave herbs for the service of man... [3] It opens the capillaries so you get a more powerful effective flow of blood through the whole body."

"Cayenne pepper is a wonderful healer... you can put cayenne pepper with any other herb and it'll intensify its action."

"A naturopath has been banned from providing any health service by the Health Care Complaints Commission. Barbara O’Neill has been under investigation by the health watchdog for making false claims about cancer and vaccinations, and for recommending inappropriate substitutes for infant formula... Ms O’Neill claims antibiotics cause cancer and neurotoxins in vaccines have caused an epidemic of ADHD, autism, epilepsy and cot death."

"With the rebounder [mini-trampoline] you've got this shock absorber and then it ricochets you up in the air so running on the ground can be very jarring for your hips. It can be very jarring for your knees and for your for your ankles and also your pelvis your lower back. Whereas there's no jarring on the rebounder."

"Rebounding is something I believe everyone can do and it's such a powerful form of exercise. You don't have to do it very much and if you've got a rebounder in your house and children visit where are they? They're on the rebounder. I've come to the conclusion that people get old because they stop jumping and one of the old sayings Jump for Joy Jump for life, so start jumping."

"Globally, we expect about a billion people will be at risk from coast-specific climate hazards under all emissions scenarios. In coming decades, the risk of coastal flooding will increase rapidly. It could be two to three orders of magnitude greater by 2100, without effective adaptation and mitigation."

"Climate change doesn’t tell the whole story, as extreme rainfall can occur for a variety of reasons."

"A large proportion of the world’s population and critical infrastructure is already concentrated along shorelines."

"Realizing global aspirations for climate resilient development depends on the extent to which coastal cities and settlements close the coastal adaptation gap and take urgent action to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions."

"As climate scientists, we are disturbingly aware of the threats to society not only here in Australia, but all over the world."

"“I never felt like it was an option [to not be interested], to be honest,”"

"“Some people say that your parents shape your political views, but it’s been much of the opposite [for me].”"

"“My first and biggest role model is my Mum,”"

"“These are real experiences and this is a very real issue that affects people on a very personal level. Not being afraid to show that vulnerability has been really, really instrumental in getting the coverage that we did.”"

"“I used to deal with so much climate anxiety and fear, thinking, ‘Wow, we are one day closer to that deadline’.”"

"“Growing up in Australia I consider myself really fortunate,” she says. “I got an education that helped me make sense of what was happening.”"

"“I was really excited to be doing something to contribute to science. I didn’t think I would get this far with coral. I was thrilled and realized this was for real, it was really happening! I was super excited – especially because it’s an area that’s also my home”."

"I want to get more people in the water. Manado is a coastal city and people need to see how beautiful it is. If they can see it, they will appreciate it and people protect what they care about and what they are interested in."

"I hope that by promoting the unique corals and ecosystems of North Sulawesi, they will want to see what makes being Manadonese even more special."

"Art has always been a powerful portal to understanding how we feel about our world. Let’s hope it helps safeguard our climatic future."