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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…

Wendell Berry

I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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Admire Among Born Good Life Loved People
A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Do Justice Longer Memory Sense Sterner We
And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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Care Good Know Love Take Willing
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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Been Deep Entirely Ever Far Free Idea Life Schooling Set So Still
The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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Arrest Hill Indiana Marble Nuclear Only Oppose Plant Power Time Year
When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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All Help Impulse IT Lamb New Nurse Raise See Sheep Stay When
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
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
If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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Afford Care Feed God Land Take Us
This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it.
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Again Done Lord Meant Prayer Think Thought Thy Time Without
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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Capable Devotion Justice People Public
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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Cherish Earth Foster Hope Legitimate Our Remain Renewal Survival
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
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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Attempt Conservationist Eat Need Responsibility Resume
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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Alone Belong God Know Nevertheless Seek Take True Truth Whose
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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Come Forethought Grief Into Live Peace Tax Thing Wild

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