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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.…
• Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more…
• The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what…
• To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
• We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
• To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
• I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,…
• Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
• An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a…
• We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is…
• For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

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