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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

Wendell Berry

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Argument Berry Better Cup Dew Drawn Pick Red Rise Than Wet
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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Any Bound Climb Ground Heal Orchard Own Place Plant Public Shadow Tree Vine Wood
And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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Badly Disease Effection Enough Etaliate Gravely Neighbors Offend Poverty Resoinsinble True Truth Ugliness
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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All Deal Deciosn Know More Nature Out Party Politician Vote Whether
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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Conservationist Farm Interest Lot Plainest Positive Readon
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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Again Birth Creature Cycle Death Decay Entirely Fertility Growth Live Maturity Pass Through
It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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Amy God Good Mean Possibility Prayer Same Suffer
We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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All Complicit May Oppose Thing Try
A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Do Justice Longer Memory Sense Sterner We
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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Deal Enough Garden Learn Most Much Question Time Urgent
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Death Hear Know Terrible Thousand War
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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Always Anything Except Good Latest Produce Technology
We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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Gift Good Live Make Makem Them Regard
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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Add Bad Better Definition Escape Food May Past Reason Something Strive
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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After All Ancient Case Earth Most Please Responsibility Worthy
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
WENDELL BERRY

Breakfast Daily Fact Horrible Interrupting Paper Read

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

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