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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Wendell Berry

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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Afford Care Feed God Land Take Us
The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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Ecosphere Ecosystem Gift Good
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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Annual Cover Emergency Hold Medical Nature Perennial Plant Scar Seed Service Sound Until
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’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
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
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
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Are Better From Learn Ourselves We
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.
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Derive Economy Genuine Global Local Locality Measure National Neighbour Offer Security
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
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
The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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Atmosphere Cycle Earth Gift Good Thing Those Water
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 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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Central Country Department Easily Erode Home Keep North People Person Round Safe Stop Upland Upon Year
For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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All Any Endless Sin Suffer
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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Above Boy Bright Else Humble Make Myself Origin Out Something

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