[diggers350] BETRAYALS which try men's souls

[Ed Iglehart]

The most important possession of a country is its population. If this is
maintained in health and vigour everything else will follow; if this is
allowed to decline nothing, not even great riches, can save the country
from eventual ruin.
http://www.tipiglen.dircon.co.uk/property.html#conclusion
enjoy the read!
ed
--
"By the union with England
the middling and inferior ranks of people in Scotland
gained a complete deliverance from the power of an
aristocracy which had always before oppressed them. "
                --Adam Smith; The Wealth of Nations
"Yeah, Right!" see http://www.tipiglen.dircon.co.uk/property.html#land
                --Ed Iglehart

"We believe that the industrialization and globalization of food and
fiber imperils humanity and the natural world.
Reducing farming to a monocultural, synthetic, transnational corporate
business threatens the health, nourishment, right livelihood, and
spirituality of communities and the earth.
It is insane to believe that we must poison land and water and waste the
soil in order to feed and clothe ourselves."

from The Vancouver Statement on the Globalization and Industrialization
of Agriculture (http://www.orionsociety.org/reinhabiting.html)

"lt doesn't take an expert in the manipulation of
statistics to understand that the survival of the entire
human species depends on a sustainable relationship to
the local expression of the processes of the biosphere."
   -- Freeman House  (http://www.orionsociety.org/bookstore.html)

My life is one long obstacle course,
         with me being the chief obstacle.

(http://www.tipiglen.dircon.co.uk/credo.html#credo)

        If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a
        committee -- that will do them in.

People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better
press than people who are just funny and smart.\n>--Howard Simons, "The
Washington Post"

As late as World War II, our farms were predominantly solar powered.
    -- Wendell Berry (http://www.tipiglen.dircon.co.uk/farming.html)

I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me,
That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly,
and my blood is part of the sea...
There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute, except my mind,
and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself,
it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.
  -- D H Lawrence ( http://www.tipiglen.dircon.co.uk/readinglist.html)

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan,
more uncertain of success, nor more dangerous to manage
than the creation of a new order of things.
For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit
by the preservation of the old institutions,
and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.
                --Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)(http://www.tao.ca/)

Visit the website: http://www.tipiglen.dircon.co.uk/

"To put the bounty and the health of our land, our only commonwealth,
into the hands of
people who do not live on it and share its fate will always be an error.
For whatever
determines the fortune of the land determines also the fortune of the
people.
If history teaches anything, it teaches that."
   -- Wendell Berry (http://www.tipiglen.dircon.co.uk/forward.html)

"Hence it is, that we every Day find Men in Conversation
 contending warmly on some Point in Politicks,
 which, altho' it may nearly concern them both,
 neither of them understand any more than they do each other."
--Benjamin Franklin (1729)
(http://www.tipiglen.dircon.co.uk/benfranklin.html)

Local People, Who Are We?

There are among us those whose ancestors fill the local graves,
And some who have found a home here, and are likely to be buried here,
There are some who have found work here, including
Some whose employers have posted them here.
We are all local people.

May the present and coming times bring our shared goals closer to
realisation.
May we come to understand and share one another's goals where we do not
already. May the forests and communities grow and prosper together in
the
knowledge that we can create our own circumstances.


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