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If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the g...more

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We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials, and other people we are working with. Such work i...more

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People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They...more

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Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all...more

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A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and...more

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I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of...more

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Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mer...more

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Our present idea of freedom is only the freedom to do as we please: to sell ourselves for a high salary, a home in the suburbs, and idle weekends. But...more

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The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

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No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home place “biocentric” or “a...more

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I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subs...more

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Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both directions. To farm well requires an elaborate cour...more

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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that poss...more

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History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has g...more

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I loved the different voices all singing one song, the various tones and qualities, the passing lifts of feeling, rising up and going out forever. Old...more