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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.

Wendell Berry

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
WENDELL BERRY

Derive Economy Genuine Global Local Locality Measure National Neighbour Offer Security
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
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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Agriculture Characteristically Industrial Problem Proceed Single Solution
For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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All Any Endless Sin Suffer
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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After All Ancient Case Earth Most Please Responsibility Worthy
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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Arrest Hill Indiana Marble Nuclear Only Oppose Plant Power Time Year
The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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Call Each Gift God Honorable Idea Kind Old Our Preference Simply Vocation
Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Afraid Awake Beat Cover Head Hear Heart Lying Own Prayer
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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All Best Day Every Go Life Open Possible Right Stick Worry
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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Affection Always Care Community Go Good Lack Land Motive Often Primary Use
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
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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Amy God Good Mean Possibility Prayer Same Suffer
I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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More Talker Writer
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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Always Anything Except Good Latest Produce Technology
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
We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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Care Condition Good Live Take World

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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