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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

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

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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

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Whether we or 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.

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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

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We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: August 5th, 1934

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