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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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In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized…
— Charles Edward Merriam
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Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.
— Mary Brave Bird
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It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet:…
— Naomi Klein
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There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of…
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Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political…
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As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from…
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The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in…
— Bernie Sanders
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If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as…
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