Quote by Wendell Berry
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own wher

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

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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they cant be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy. – Wendell Berry

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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. – Wendell Berry

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. – Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620

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We all need to look into the dark side of our nature – thats where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us were busy denying. – Sue Grafton

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I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We neednt destroy other cultures with the force of our own. – Arthur Erickson

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Nature will not be admired by proxy. – Winston Churchill

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