We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
Interpretation
True security comes from knowing our basic needs are met close to home and surrounded by community.
This quote highlights the connection between personal security and the presence of abundance and relationships in our immediate environment. It suggests that when we can see our food growing and have friends nearby, we feel a deeper sense of safety and belonging, emphasizing the importance of self-sufficiency and community support in our lives.
In practice
This quote can be shared in discussions about sustainable living and community gardening.
There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system
The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.
If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so on. Because we all believed we were tragic, and we drank. We had that helpless, destined feeling. We would die with handcuffs on. We would be put a stop to, and it wouldn't be our fault. So we imagined. And yet we were always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons.
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