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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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This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale…
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Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to…
— Henry Mackenzie
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If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
— Horace
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Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be…
— Polycarp
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When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting…
— Donald T. Phillips
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People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue,…
— Charles Colson
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In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
— George Washington
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