Janine Benyus Quotes

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

The more natural, the better.

We're doing a partial green nursery and trying as hard as we can to do as much organic stuff for our nursery as we can.

I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them.

The entire Mayron's Good Baby natural skin care line is free from synthetic fragrances, paraben, sodium lauryl sulfate, and DEA. It was a wonderful experience to work with my father on the creation of these natural products.

Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle.

I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.

A natural sponge is not as funny. A square sponge also fit that squeaky-clean idea I was going for.

I am obsessed with Green Tidings deodorant - it's this natural deodorant.

I'm not big on chemicals, and I like to try to do things as natural as possible.

People are so concerned with what they put in their bodies but so few know what they're putting on their skin. I like to use preservative-free, cruelty-free makeup that hasn't been tested on animals.

While I try to avoid toxic ingredients like parabens, phthalates, and petrochemicals, I like to dig deeper into the contents of these beauty staples.

Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.

There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.

Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.

think of it this way," he said "It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead?

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back to the earth. the earth welcomes the body-coaxes new life and beauty from it, hurries over what men shudder at. Lovely tender herbage bursts from the graves, swiftly, exulting over corruption.

I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

To purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life.

I have great faith in a seed.