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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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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of…
— Pietro Aretino
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The buzz is still with me. I get goose bumps.
— David Beckham
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
— Clarence Darrow
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A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
— William Shakespeare
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Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
— Aesop
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Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing…
— Frances Ford Seymour
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When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.
— Frank Shorter
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It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
— John Lyly
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Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of…
— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
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The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight…
— H. L. Mencken
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I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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