James Lind Quotes

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.

There is never enough where nought is left.

If Victual should prove scarce, as we have not Goods or Money for any Value to send out for Corns [food grains like wheat]; so only a part of the People could be maintained: The better part would have Bread, but the more necessary part, the Laboring Men would be forced to leave the Country, or to starve in it.

… any one having a good musket... and six months' provisions

Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.

To give you an idea of how fast we travelled - we left with two rabbits and when we arrived we still had only two.

Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.

He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for the scarce resources. Money is a social convention, an agreement if you will. It is neither a natural resource nor does it represent one. It is not necessary for survival unless we have been conditioned to accept it as such.

Land!” shouted Thomas. “Is there food?” asked Tubby Ted.

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.

There's not enough of me left over.

We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.

...when we really get into hard times, where food is scarce or there is none at all, and so with clothing and shelter, money may be no good for there may be nothing to buy, and you cannot eat money, you cannot get enough of it together to burn to keep you warm, and you cannot wear it.

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.