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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, and in the…
- The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a…
- With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market,…
- The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or…
- The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to…
- The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem…
- They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet…
- The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that…
- Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to…
- We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner…
- Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to…
- Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It…
- We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging…
- Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.
- The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field…
- But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way…
- I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure…
- When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and…
- I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the…
- I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits…
- Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we cannot…
- Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings…
- The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into…
- As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion…
- When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from heaven. And you…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong