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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. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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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 global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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