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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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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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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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We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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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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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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