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“Imagine the outcome if we each took only enough, rather than far more than our share. … Ecopsychologists have shown that the practice of gratitude puts brakes on hyperconsumption. The relationships nurtured by gift thinking diminish our sense of scarcity and want.”

“Eating with the seasons is a way of honoring abundance, by going to meet it when and where it arrives.”

“Maybe that’s why [the serviceberries] taste so good— they come only this time of year— these ephemeral sips of summer, without the aftertaste of harm.”

“[Bullroarer] charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Goldfimbul’s head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way, the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.”