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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 Earth is what we all have in common.

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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 paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood ...more

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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster...more

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I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness o...more

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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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I’ve come down from the skylike some damned ghost, delayedtoo long…To the abandoned fieldsthe trees returned and grew.They stand and grow. Time comesT...more

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How to be a Poet (to remind myself)Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill—more of eac...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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time.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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Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it is necessary, even now, to leave t...more

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Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social weapon in the hands of the religious institutions....more

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In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is...more

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In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of...more

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It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy w...more