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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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Our first and last love is self-love.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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You cannot go outside of A and Z in the realm of literature; likewise Christ Jesus is First and Last of God's…
— Theodore Austin-Sparks
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But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy…
— Eva Longoria
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The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have…
— James Dwight Dana
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"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial…
— John Ruskin
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It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first…
— Elijah Muhammad
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Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
— Charles Simmons
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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first…
— Plato
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As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide…
— John Mott
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First and last follow each other.
— Laozi
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