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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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 primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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 votes.
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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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Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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