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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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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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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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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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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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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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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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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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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.
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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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