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Sustainability's original principles, going back to the first Earth Day, however, have included long term perspectives and a tree-hugger community of "be here now," pie-faced, granola-crunching (myself included) individuals who long ago embraced their own eco-welfare as tightly and ferociously as they embraced the eco-well-being of others, locally and globally (Does the term "Think global; act local" ring a bell?)

Michael DeJong: The Human Stain on "Sustainism" Michael DeJong 2011

Lordy me, let's just hope Prince Harry has a hotline to a proper policeman and not the pie-faced community support in a flat hat and too-short trousers who trundles about my neighbourhood on a mountain bike 12 hours a week.

Grace Dent's TV OD: The Taking Of Prince Harry Grace Dent 2010

She reopened the locker, threw the phone into her purse, retrieved her iPod, slammed the locker shut again, and walked swiftly past the receptionist on duty, a pale, pie-faced thing named Ashley.

Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010

She did not care about the rumors, which her cousins, Maud, Countess of Wickham, and her pie-faced daughters, Desdemona and Thisby, had been kind enough to recount during a morning call two weeks before.

Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

To keep her busy, Bill gave her fencing lessons, and Nesbit referred to him in her diary as “Bill deMille, that pie-faced mut who is in cahoots with Stanford to keep me prisoner.”

Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

A bunch of cows and their pie-faced calves decided it would be all right if I passed them, and a playful red horse danced along the fence around a grove of pecan trees.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Particularities of Place 2008

She did not care about the rumors, which her cousins, Maud, Countess of Wickham, and her pie-faced daughters, Desdemona and Thisby, had been kind enough to recount during a morning call two weeks before.

Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

With business on the brink, the boss decided to consult with his his premium customers and a pie-faced sooth sayer from Nottingham as to the future.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

She reopened the locker, threw the phone into her purse, retrieved her iPod, slammed the locker shut again, and walked swiftly past the receptionist on duty, a pale, pie-faced thing named Ashley.

Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010

I must admit, when I saw the silhouette of the new "all growed up" Dora, I thought "what the eff are they doing to our beloved pie-faced Dora?"

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