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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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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what…
— Albert Camus
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for…
— Thomas Adams
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In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
— Edgar Allan Poe
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All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are…
— Bell Hooks
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Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will…
— Thomas Merton
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Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.
— John of Damascus
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What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection.…
— Sri Chinmoy
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And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy…
— John of Damascus
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Our joy now and forever is inextricably tied to our capacity to love.
— John H. Groberg
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We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn…
— Alain de Botton
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