Quote by Wendell Berry
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. – Wendell Berry

Other quotes by Wendell Berry

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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Food
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The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. – Wendell Berry

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Past
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As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association and affection. – Wendell Berry

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Technology
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People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. – Raoul Vaneigem

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Only fools are positive. – Moe Howard

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Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. – David Hockney

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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. – B. F. Skinner

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Poor, darling fellow – he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table. – Diana Vreeland

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If someone takes your coat, give him your cloak as well; if he makes you go a mile with him, go with him two. Mathew – Bible

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