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.

Quote by Wendell Berry

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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our...

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our...

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or...

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or...

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only...

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only...

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what...

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what...

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in...

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in...

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only...

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only...

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our...

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our...

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time:...

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time:...

All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't...

All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't...

When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at...

When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at...

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in...

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in...

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with...

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with...

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with...

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with...

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where...

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where...

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all...

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all...

We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, Neither mortal or immortal, So...

We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, Neither mortal or immortal, So...

When the birds sing, do they call to the flowers in the fields, or are...

When the birds sing, do they call to the flowers in the fields, or are...

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of...

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of...