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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Wendell Berry

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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Care Condition Good Live Take World
The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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Atmosphere Cycle Earth Gift Good Thing Those Water
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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Breakfast Daily Fact Horrible Interrupting Paper Read
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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All Help Impulse IT Lamb New Nurse Raise See Sheep Stay When
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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Attempt Conservationist Eat Need Responsibility Resume
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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Conservationist Entitle Farmer Feel Food Production Unconcern Urban
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
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
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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Alone Belong God Know Nevertheless Seek Take True Truth Whose
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
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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Absurd Clearly Food Interest Production
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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Aim Concentration Great Hand Industrialism People Plutocracy Replacement Small Technology Two Wealth
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
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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Affection Always Care Community Go Good Lack Land Motive Often Primary Use
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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Conservationist Farm Interest Lot Plainest Positive Readon
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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Capable Devotion Justice People Public

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