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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.

Wendell Berry

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
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
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
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All Deal Decsioson Know More Nature Our Party Politician She Vote We 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
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
The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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Call Each Gift God Honorable Idea Kind Old Our Preference Simply Vocation
For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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All Any Endless Sin Suffer
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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Annual Cover Emergency Hold Medical Nature Perennial Plant Scar Seed Service Sound Until
Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Afraid Awake Beat Cover Head Hear Heart Lying Own Prayer
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
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
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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Absurd Clearly Food Interest Production
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
I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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More Talker Writer
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

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