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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.

Wendell Berry

The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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Ecosphere Ecosystem Gift Good
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
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
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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Central Country Department Easily Erode Home Keep North People Person Round Safe Stop Upland Upon Year
For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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All Any Endless Sin Suffer
We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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Care Condition Good Live Take World
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
All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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All Best Day Every Go Life Open Possible Right Stick Worry
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
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
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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Conservationist Entitle Farmer Feel Food Production Unconcern Urban
An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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Derive Economy Genuine Global Local Locality Measure National Neighbour Offer Security
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
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Feel Forst Hand Like Man Night Pray Walk Way
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
A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Do Justice Longer Memory Sense Sterner We
For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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For Free Grace Rest Time World

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