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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

Wendell Berry

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
For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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For Free Grace Rest Time World
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
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
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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Capable Devotion Justice People Public
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
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
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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All Deal Deciosn Know More Nature Out Party Politician Vote Whether
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
My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Belief Condition Gift Life Our World
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 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 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
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

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