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quotable Tuesday: restoration

I feel that you cannot read the Bible fully unless you have some understanding of environmental principles. People have forgotten that Christianity believes in three primary relationships: humans to God, humans to humans, and humans to nature. We have come to act like humans can only act toward God and others. [ READ MORE ]

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I have mixed feelings about gardens on the grand scale. I can’t help admiring the effort, the optimism, the investment, the skill of the pépiniériste and the end results, which are often superb. … But would I want a garden like that, with its constant need to be nourished by a mulch of 500-franc notes? [ READ MORE ]

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau [ READ MORE ]

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A rind is a terrible thing to waste. Compost. - Bumper Sticker [ READ MORE ]

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“To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.” — Theodore Roosevelt [ READ MORE ]

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