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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: August 5th, 1934

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