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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it.…
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more…
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what…
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,…
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a…
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is…
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
— Matsuo Basho
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I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
— Johnny Carson
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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the…
— Oscar Wilde
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The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted…
— Edna Lewis
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip…
— John Updike
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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary…
— Charles Dickens
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You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every…
— Don Meyer
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We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put…
— Don Meyer
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You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when…
— Genevieve Gorder
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop…
— Saadi
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A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That…
— James Thomas Fields
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