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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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Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual…
— Susanna Wesley
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
— Andre Gide
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During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But…
— Melissa Bank
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An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.
— Evan Esar
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Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.
— J. Nozipo Maraire
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Drama often obscures the real issues
— Jenny Holzer
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To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to…
— Joanne Stepaniak
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Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
— Kabir
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Hatred obscures all distinctions.
— C.S. Lewis
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The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.
— Mark Epstein
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Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Reality - the way that is, exactly as it is, in every moment - is always kind. It's our story about reality…
— Byron Katie
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