"Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a……" — David James Duncan
"Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there."
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28 Quotes by David James Duncan
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Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly…
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I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a…
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And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.
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Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world…
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The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual…
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You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out…
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When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.
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My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
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The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.
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We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.
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Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to…
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I'd taken a big fat crisis off my shoulders and loaded it all on Jesus, which seemed unfair in a…
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