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Quotes by Michael Shannon

“Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earths transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.”

“Children eat 10, 20, 30 times greater in amount than adults, and they have smaller bodies. So in a milligram-per-pound body weight, they are exposed to much, much more of the pesticide placed on these products compared to an adult,”

“Children are being exposed to large amounts of pesticides daily throughout their diet -- cumulatively, over the first 5, 10, 15, 20 years of their lives, when they are trying to have their brains, their kidneys, and their liver become perfectly functioning organs, ... These chemicals can interrupt this process.”

“Theyre almost tripling the size of the floor area.”

When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because youre seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.