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Thought For the Day: Nature Is A Totally Efficient, Self-Regenerating System. If We Discover the Laws that Govern This System … Sustainability Will Follow

“Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerating system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow, and humankind will be a success.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

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The Future We’ll Grow

The Future We’ll Growby Michael DoyleWe’ve heard at the universityThat monoculture destroys diversity.While nature cultivates its legacy,Working together against the plantation economy.Chemical farming came disguised as evolution.It was, in a sense, codified as the Green Revolution.Throughout the world, like a … Continue reading

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Harmonious Replenishment

Harmonious Replenishmentby Michael DoyleThough we all wish for simplicity,Nature is infinite in complexity.Fungi, plants, and animals create the biomeThat we too often see as our own.Standing in opposition, we seek to nurtureThose things that make up our agriculture.Death and waste … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Science and Religion Are Not Antagonists. On the Contrary, They Are Sisters. While Science Tries To Learn More About Creation, Religion Tries To Better Understand the Creator

“Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion tries to better understand the Creator. While through science man tries to harness the forces of nature around … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: The Art of Healing Comes From Nature, Not From the Physician. Therefore, the Physician Must Start From Nature, With An Open Mind

“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.” – Paracelsus

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Indiana’s Waters

Indiana’s Watersby Michael DoyleIndiana first greeted me with a rainy season.It lasted about sixty days and tried my reason.Patiently, I’ve explored this place and its stops.There’s so much to see between the velvet raindrops.The backroads are filled with flowered beauty,And … Continue reading

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First Principles: Government …Springs From the Necessities of Our Nature, and Has An Everlasting Foundation In the Unchangeable Will of God

“Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution of 1688; nor on property, as was the assertion of Harrington. It springs from the … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: There Is Something Infinitely Healing In the Repeated Refrains of Nature

“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.” – Rachel Carson

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Thought For the Day: All Men By Nature Are Equal In That Equal Right That Every Man Hath To His Natural Freedom, Without Being Subjected To the Will or Authority of Any Other Man

“All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm … Continue reading

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Strange Days In Need of Integrity

Strange Days In Need of Integrityby Michael DoyleLooking at the strange days of indignity,It seems we need to find our integrity. In the toss of deception and sin, We wonder if we’ll find a way out again. Something is awry … Continue reading

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