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" I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved. "

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" 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. "

" To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. "

" There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts. "

" To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. "

" 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. "

" The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology. "

" We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. "

" The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking. "

" 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. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. "

" For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless. "

" 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. "

" Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. "

" Whether we and 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. "

" If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess. "