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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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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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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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’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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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