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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 grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the…
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Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other,…
— Henry Miller
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In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.
— Stephen Fry
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You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.
— Aravind Adiga
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This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify…
— Michael Morpurgo
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Francis: Judging by your breath, you must have been buzzing around a dung heap all day!
— A Bugs Life
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