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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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 ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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