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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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