“If you plant a seed in the ground, the seed doesn’t say, ‘Well, in eight hours I’m going to stop growing.’ You put it in the soil, and that bulb grows every second that it’s attached to the earth. That’s why I think that every minute that we’re attached to the earth, we should be doing something.”

“If you plant a seed in the ground, the seed doesn’t say, ‘Well, in eight hours I’m going to stop growing.’ You put it in the soil, and that bulb grows every second that it’s attached to the earth. That’s why I think that every minute that we’re attached to the earth, we should be doing something.”

— Ruth Asawa