We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

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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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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

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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.

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The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

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