Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only … - Alice Walker

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The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

Alice Walker

Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things. "

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People who work hard often work too hard. . . . May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

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It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

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