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Quote by Wendell Berry
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without

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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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. – Wendell Berry

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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. – Wendell Berry

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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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Time is not what you think. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning. – Mitch Albom

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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. – Christopher Fry

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To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal. – Jorge Luis Borges

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