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