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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.

Wendell Berry

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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Conservationist Farm Interest Lot Plainest Positive Readon
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
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All Deal Decsioson Know More Nature Our Party Politician She Vote We Whether
When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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All Help Impulse IT Lamb New Nurse Raise See Sheep Stay When
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
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
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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Comprehend Us What
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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Decreased Place Scared Unsacred
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
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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Add Bad Better Definition Escape Food May Past Reason Something Strive
For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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For Free Grace Rest Time World
To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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Cherish Foster Hope Only Our Remain Renewal
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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Conservationist Entitle Farmer Feel Food Production Unconcern Urban
My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Belief Condition Gift Life Our World
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
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
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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Been Deep Entirely Ever Far Free Idea Life Schooling Set So Still

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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