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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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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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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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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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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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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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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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