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

Wendell Berry

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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Care Good Know Love Take Willing
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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Decreased Place Scared Unsacred
A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Do Justice Longer Memory Sense Sterner We
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
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
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Death Hear Know Terrible Thousand War
The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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Arrest Hill Indiana Marble Nuclear Only Oppose Plant Power Time Year
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
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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Any Bound Climb Ground Heal Orchard Own Place Plant Public Shadow Tree Vine Wood
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Argument Berry Better Cup Dew Drawn Pick Red Rise Than Wet
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
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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Attempt Conservationist Eat Need Responsibility Resume
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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After All Ancient Case Earth Most Please Responsibility Worthy
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
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
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

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