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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Wendell Berry

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’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
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
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
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
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
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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Affection Always Care Community Go Good Lack Land Motive Often Primary Use
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 come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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Come Forethought Grief Into Live Peace Tax Thing Wild
The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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Ecosphere Ecosystem Gift Good
I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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Admire Among Born Good Life Loved People
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
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
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 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
For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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All Any Endless Sin Suffer

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