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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

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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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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

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The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if not a sense of the mutuality of influence, rising ...more

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I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about - a book open to...more

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We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from...more