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“I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.”

Earth Certain Cities Amount Connections Raised Texas

Author:JoBeth Williams

“And most of all, it means continually drawing connections among these seemingly disparate struggles—asserting, for instance, that the logic that would cut pensions, food stamps, and health care before increasing taxes on the rich is the same logic that would blast the bedrock of the earth to get the last vapors of gas and the last drops of oil before making the shift to renewable energy.”

Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

“The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.”

Giving Art Made Done Earth Names Work Materials Source Honor Connections Users Good Work

Book:Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

“I have been trying to think of the earth as a kind of organism, but it is no go. I cannot think of it this way. It is too big, too complex, with too many working parts lacking visible connections. The other night, driving through a hilly, wooded part of southern New England, I wondered about this. If not like an organism, what is it like, what is it most like? Then, satisfactorily for that moment, it came to me: it is most like a single cell”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Kind Has Beens Moments Bigs Earth Night Connections England Complexes Driving Cells Visible That Moment Southern Organisms Lacking New England

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays