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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.


Frances Mayes

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FRANCES BEINECKE The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Centr...
FRANCES BEINECKE The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,00...
FRANCES BEINECKE The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will ri...
FRANCES BEINECKE Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the ...
FRANCES BEINECKE Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrup...
FRANCES BEINECKE I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey ...
FRANCES BEINECKE The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels ...
FRANCES BEINECKE Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the sev...
FRANCES BEINECKE Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousan...
FRANCES BEINECKE It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps ...
FRANCES O'GRADY Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
FRANCES WRIGHT But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of t...
FRANCES WRIGHT I am desperately seeking love, but also desperately avoiding it
FRANCES IVY Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at si...
FRANCES WRIGHT The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapi...
FRANCES O'GRADY Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting ...
FRANCES O'GRADY A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of de...
FRANCES WRIGHT I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until...
FRANCES BEINECKE However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in so...
FRANCES WRIGHT Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends...
FRANCES BEINECKE We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we hav...
FRANCES BEINECKE When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must...
FRANCES BEINECKE Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
FRANCES BEINECKE The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Ba...
FRANCES FARMER We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gesture...
FRANCES BEINECKE Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any t...
FRANCES HARDINGE Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate im...
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