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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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Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow…
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The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.
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