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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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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a…
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Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.
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You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your…
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In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" -…
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We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.
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I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the…
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Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.
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I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an…
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In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This…
— Constantin Stanislavski
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Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state…
— Allan Bloom
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It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description…
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