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- If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an…
- As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,…
- WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a…
- We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
- Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no…
- To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry…
- To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that…
- When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
- During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still…
- We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We…
- A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his…
- Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with…
- The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and…
- The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have…
- 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…
- Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love…
- And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just…
- It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or…
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