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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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Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call…
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of…
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Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.
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Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day…
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Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song…
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You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
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And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life,…
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A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and…
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What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only…
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When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.
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When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with…
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