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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.…
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The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing…
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Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
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There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high…
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No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
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Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to…
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
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For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet…
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The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the…
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Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded…
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
— Lauren Bacall
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
— Wendell Berry
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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…
— Wendell Berry
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I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we…
— David R. Brower
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The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the…
— Wendell Berry
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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
— Cato the Elder
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It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously.…
— Prince Charles
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I can't give you a specific number today, in large part because the analysis upon which we would make that determination has…
— Tom Vilsack
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The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby…
— Peter Singer
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Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in the 1960s.…
— David Suzuki
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Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about…
— Prince Charles
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