The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
WENDELL BERRYUrban 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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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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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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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