A Paradise Built in Hell
The Sacred Balance, 25th anniversary edition: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (Foreword by Robin Wall Kimmerer)
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‘These accounts,’ she writes, ‘demonstrate that the citizens any paradise would need – the people who are brave enough, resourceful enough, and generous enough – already exist.’69 If people did not by nature want to be good, kind, and useful to one another, this is not what should happen. When disaster strikes, we should instead be reduced to our v
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