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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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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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Agriculture Characteristically Industrial Problem Proceed Single Solution
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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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
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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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
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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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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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
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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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Decreased Place Scared Unsacred
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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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