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- Why I am NOT going to buy a computer Buy
- They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet… Beg
- If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the… Abominable
- Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred, Abstract
- Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob, a mob overflowing… Any
- For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar. Accept
- The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that… Agitated
- It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons. Been
- Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice. Economies
- WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a… Choice
- Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by… Acres
- We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land. Concerned
- But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a… All
- In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences,… Ability
- There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the… Access
- So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be… All
- We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods. Accepting
- Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no… Beauty
- A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not… Ask
- Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to… Build
- The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses… Cleared
- The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside. Balance
- It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is… Future
- The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away. Dare
- It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave. Alternative
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