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03 May 2025 02:11

"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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02 May 2025 21:15

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02 May 2025 18:13

"Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered."

~C.S. Lewis

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29 Apr 2025 02:05

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28 Apr 2025 22:15

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28 Apr 2025 20:18

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28 Apr 2025 18:16

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“So things have gone. We have reached at last, as the final result of that catastrophe three hundred years ago, a state of society which cannot endure and a dissolution of standards, a melting of the spiritual framework, such that the body politic fails. Men everywhere feel that an attempt to continue down this endless and ever darkening road is like the piling up of debt. We go further and further from a settlement.
Our various forms of knowledge diverge more and more. Authority, the very principle of life, loses its meaning, and this awful edifice of civilization which we have inherited, and which is still our trust, trembles and threatens to crash down. It is clearly insecure. It may fall in any moment..."

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26 Apr 2025 05:08

"Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light."

~Russell Kirk

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26 Apr 2025 00:18

“For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”

~Alan Watts

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25 Apr 2025 22:16

"The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them."

~Saint Francis de Sales

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25 Apr 2025 20:14

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22 Apr 2025 06:21

"Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in its contention that religion is nothing but an organized, gigantic fraud and a curse to the human race, nothing could be farther from the truth. It possesses these two aspects, the evil one of the two appealing to people capable of naïve hatred; but what is actually happening is that when you get natures stirred to their depths over questions which they feel to be overwhelmingly vital, you get the bad stirred up in them as well as the good; the mud as well as the water. It doesn't seem to matter much which sect you have, for both types occur in all sects."

~Alfred North Whitehead

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22 Apr 2025 03:19

"Endeavor to unite the simplicity of children with the prudence of adults."

~St. Padre Pio

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22 Apr 2025 00:26

"The Earth has music for those who listen."

George Sand

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21 Apr 2025 21:15

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03 May 2025 00:17

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29 Apr 2025 05:24

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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29 Apr 2025 01:20

"After a whole day in the woods, we are already immortal."

John Muir

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28 Apr 2025 21:14

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28 Apr 2025 18:17

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"...We who still live may see the ruin. But ruin when it comes is not only a sudden, it is also a final, thing.
In such a crux there remains the historical truth: that this our European structure, built upon the noble foundations of classical antiquity, was formed through, exists by, is consonant to, and will stand only in the mold of, the Catholic Church.

Europe will return to the Faith, or she will perish.

The Faith is Europe. And Europe is the Faith.”

~Hilaire Belloc

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26 Apr 2025 07:06

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25 Apr 2025 23:17

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."

Rachel Carson

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25 Apr 2025 21:15

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25 Apr 2025 18:13

“There is no other really human basis upon which to build a social order, unless we return — though the agrarians never suggested or desired this — to some kind of simple pastoral life. But the agrarian life is neither a going nor a going forward. It has nothing to do with the illusion of progress or decadence, it knows nothing of the straight line. Life is a timeless cycle, not a line, and the agrarian life establishes man within that natural cycle, where he belongs. Those who have argued the contrary are now seeing what it costs to support an industrial order, when it becomes the order of life; when indeed it gives orders, as it must, not only in the factory and office, but everywhere.”

~Donald Davidson

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22 Apr 2025 04:21

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21 Apr 2025 22:16

Playing in the rain and mud.
What fun! 🤍😇🤍

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