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Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

Wendell Berry

Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
WENDELL BERRY

Annual Cover Emergency Hold Medical Nature Perennial Plant Scar Seed Service Sound Until
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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Add Bad Better Definition Escape Food May Past Reason Something Strive
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
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
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
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
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 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
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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Feel Forst Hand Like Man Night Pray Walk Way
I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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More Talker Writer
For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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For Free Grace Rest Time World
To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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Cherish Foster Hope Only Our Remain Renewal
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
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
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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Aim Concentration Great Hand Industrialism People Plutocracy Replacement Small Technology Two Wealth
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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Gift Good Live Make Makem Them Regard

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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