Ron Finley Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Ron Finley I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. I use the garden soil like it's a piece of cloth, and the plants and the trees, that's my embellishment for that cloth. You'd be surprised what the soil can do if you let it be your canvas. Ron Finley gardeninspiringart If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn. Ron Finley fightingcriticismchildren If kids grow kale, kids eat kale. If they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes. But when none of this is presented to them, if they're not shown how food affects the mind and the body, they blindly eat whatever you put in front of them. Ron Finley motivationinspirationkids South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys. Ron Finley motivationinspirationhome We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta. Ron Finley gangstamotivationinspiration The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it. Ron Finley sustainabilityenvironmentalfunny-things People need to realize how powerful the transformation of soil can be. Ron Finley needtransformationpowerfulpeople Children learn what they live. Ron Finley learnlivechildren We've gotten so far away from our food source. It's been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It's that simple. Ron Finley yousimplefoodwater All the attention in the world won't do my dishes. Ron Finley dishesattentionworld People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word. Ron Finley knowfoodsweetpeople
