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
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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I try to be available for life to happen to me. We're in this life, and if you're not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didnβt live it. But if you're available, life gets huge. You're really living it.
I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.
When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or resources. It's about people and lives and hearts. That's my biggest passion in life.
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