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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.

Wendell Berry

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
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
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
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
I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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More Talker Writer
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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Above Boy Bright Else Humble Make Myself Origin Out Something
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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Deal Enough Garden Learn Most Much Question Time Urgent
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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Aim Concentration Great Hand Industrialism People Plutocracy Replacement Small Technology Two Wealth
Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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Annual Cover Emergency Hold Medical Nature Perennial Plant Scar Seed Service Sound Until
A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Do Justice Longer Memory Sense Sterner We
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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Any Bound Climb Ground Heal Orchard Own Place Plant Public Shadow Tree Vine Wood
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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Breakfast Daily Fact Horrible Interrupting Paper Read
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
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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Absurd Clearly Food Interest Production
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Death Hear Know Terrible Thousand War
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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Feel Forst Hand Like Man Night Pray Walk Way

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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