"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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"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.“
-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."
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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."
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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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