To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
WENDELL BERRYMy belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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 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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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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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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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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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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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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