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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Wendell Berry

The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
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Aim Concentration Great Hand Industrialism People Plutocracy Replacement Small Technology Two Wealth
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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Breakfast Daily Fact Horrible Interrupting Paper Read
For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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All Any Endless Sin Suffer
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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Affection Always Care Community Go Good Lack Land Motive Often Primary Use
To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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Cherish Foster Hope Only Our Remain Renewal
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
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
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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Decreased Place Scared Unsacred
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
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
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
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
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
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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Absurd Clearly Food Interest Production
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
A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Do Justice Longer Memory Sense Sterner We

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