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Their wordsimagination thrives on contact, on tangible connection.
Their wordsFor humans to have a responsible relationship to the world, they must imagine their places in it.
Their wordsBut the risk, I think, is only that affection is personal. If it is not personal, it is nothing
Their wordsIn such modest joy in a modest holding is the promise of a stable, democratic society, a promise not to be found in “mobility”
Their wordsA principled dissatisfaction with whatever one has promises nothing or worse.
Their wordsThere is in fact no distinction between the fate of the land and the fate of the people. When one is abused, the other suffers.
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