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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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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

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The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of ...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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I realized that the story of even so small a place can never be completely told and can never be finished. It is eternal, always here and now, and goi...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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time.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

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If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my heart His love for the world, and this was my most prid...more

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I thought that some of the hymns bespoke the true religion of the place. The people didn't really want to be saints of self-deprivation and hatred of ...more

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It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world. But not if the river is navigable, as ours is. On...more

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My vision of the gathered church that had come to me... had been replaced by a vision of the gathered community. What I saw now was the community impe...more

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Finally Bill Mixter would lower his head, lay his bow upon the strings, and draw out the first notes of a tune, and the others would come in behind hi...more

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Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had...more