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.

Quote by Wendell Berry

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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:...

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...

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...

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and...

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and...

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

When you hear Joe you hear that conviction, and diction, that open emotion, devotion is...

When you hear Joe you hear that conviction, and diction, that open emotion, devotion is...