"Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat."
-Wendell Berry
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"To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.“
-Wendell Berry
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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."
-Wendell Berry
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"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."
-Wendell Berry
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"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."
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"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."
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"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."
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"We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!"
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"Penn State is a leader in food science."
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