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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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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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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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If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremo...more

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If we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our min...more

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Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor...more

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We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been based on the even flimsier assumption that we...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 f...more

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It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either signifies nothing or has only a neg...more

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While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing to Think Little, ...more

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We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves and one another....more