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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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