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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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