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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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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was…
— Benjamin Tucker
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When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people -…
— C.S. Lewis
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If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean…
— Wendell Berry
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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To…
— Aleister Crowley
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Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
— Lewis Thomas
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
— Paul Valery
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
— Oscar Wilde
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You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may…
— Hermann Hesse
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[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)
— Stephen Levine
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