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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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I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.
— Juliette Binoche
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The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.
— Wendell Berry
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
— Umberto Eco
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It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with…
— Walter Rauschenbusch
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Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.
— Gelsey Kirkland
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How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of…
— Walter Pater
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All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
— Jacqueline Carey
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should…
— Henry David Thoreau
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My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.
— Jonathan Lethem
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