Quote by Wendell Berry
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about f

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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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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Nature
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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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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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I couldnt relate to kid stuff. Jimmy doesnt like me! Who cares? I was worried we didnt have gas money or food. Those were my concerns. – Leighton Meester

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Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and its wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine. – Thomas Keller

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Doctors confuse color and chemistry. The white meat of chicken is therefore the essence of a light diet and dark meat is poison. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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