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Wendell Berry Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.



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