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- People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a…
- When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to…
- If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the…
- The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that…
- In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences,…
- You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well…
- It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the…
- At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came. These small healings…
- Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is…
- Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily…
- There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
- People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and…
- However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found…
- The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be…
- Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
- I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world…
- The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.
- Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
- If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine…
- I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about…
- As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion…
- When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from heaven. And you…
- And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just…
- I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle…
- This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and…
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