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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.

Wendell Berry

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
And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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Badly Disease Effection Enough Etaliate Gravely Neighbors Offend Poverty Resoinsinble True Truth Ugliness
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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Amy God Good Mean Possibility Prayer Same Suffer
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
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
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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Decreased Place Scared Unsacred
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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Add Bad Better Definition Escape Food May Past Reason Something Strive
We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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Gift Good Live Make Makem Them Regard
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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Derive Economy Genuine Global Local Locality Measure National Neighbour Offer Security
I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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More Talker Writer
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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Come Forethought Grief Into Live Peace Tax Thing Wild
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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All Complicit May Oppose Thing Try
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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Comprehend Us What
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
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All Deal Decsioson Know More Nature Our Party Politician She Vote We Whether
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
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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