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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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The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
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You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to…
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Twenty-one already, and I still haven't done a thing worth immortality.
— Judith Malina
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The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.
— Arundhati Roy
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Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it,…
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The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.
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Being you is the only thing worth spotlighting.
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There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for ...
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