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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" We cannot comprehend what comprehends us. "

" 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. "

" 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 care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "