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

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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, theyd starve to death. – Sam Snead

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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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Death is a distant rumor to the young. – Andrew A. Rooney

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. – Lord Byron

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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death. – Dave Grohl

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Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. – William Penn

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Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true. – Mr. Spock, Star Trek

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