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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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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
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We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve…
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Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not…
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To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human.…
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We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities...
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not…
— Jack Kornfield
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Working hard for our own sake No matter how much we feel tired its better for the future But dont forget to…
— Marianette Carbito
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Humans, let it be men and women are equal in terms of loyalty, but we get carried away too quickly for our…
— Ramandeep Singh
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