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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. But we will…
- The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it…
- To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
- If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health…
- 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,…
- For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any…
- A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
- I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What…
- 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…
- Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob, a mob overflowing…
- 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…
- Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by…
- But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-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.
- The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.
- We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's…
- Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to…
- We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future…
- In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value…
- It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the…
- I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and…
- Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is…
- Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.
- Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all…
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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