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30 quotes
American writer
“When I rise uplet me rise up joyfullike a bird.When I falllet me fall without regretlike a leaf.”
"Thinking is the most overrated human activity."
on Critical Thinking
"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?"
on Sustainability
"Eating is an agricultural act."
on Agriculture
"Again I resume the longlesson: how small a thingcan be pleasing, how littlein this hard world it takesto satisfy the mindand bring it to its rest."
on Life
"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."
"The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life."
"I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
on Nature
"To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd."
"What I stand for is what I stand on."
on Character
"The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling."
on Freedom
"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."
on Time
"You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light."
on Hope
"You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it."
on Social Justice
"The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass."
"There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love."
"Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls."
on Empathy
"Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it."
on Love
"Novelty is a new kind of loneliness."
on Anxiety
"Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world."
on Faith
"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."
on Grief
