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If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.

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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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