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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a writer more than I am a talker. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. 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. "

" 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. "

" The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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