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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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Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in…
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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st…
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Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a…
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The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
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Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field.
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But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has…
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No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is…
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