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I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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Comprehend Us What
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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