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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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