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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.

Wendell Berry

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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After All Ancient Case Earth Most Please Responsibility Worthy
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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All Deal Deciosn Know More Nature Out Party Politician Vote Whether
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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Call Each Gift God Honorable Idea Kind Old Our Preference Simply Vocation
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
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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Arrest Hill Indiana Marble Nuclear Only Oppose Plant Power Time Year
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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All Best Day Every Go Life Open Possible Right Stick Worry
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
For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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For Free Grace Rest Time World
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
I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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More Talker Writer
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Are Better From Learn Ourselves We
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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Cherish Earth Foster Hope Legitimate Our Remain Renewal Survival
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
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
This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it.
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Again Done Lord Meant Prayer Think Thought Thy Time Without

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