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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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The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either…
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We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead…
— Jimmy Carter
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We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand.
— Paul Robeson
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Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day -…
— Mark Bittman
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The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we…
— Jimmy Carter
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People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in…
— Alex Tabarrok
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Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures…
— Virginia Postrel
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Our demand for technological advancement causes great stress upon the Earth: Medical achievements aim to eliminate ailments, but serve as crutches for…
— Melchor Lim
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The problem for the U.S. is that the economy is growing faster than the rest of the world, and, therefore, our demand…
— John Williams
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