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Wendell Berry

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

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We must value and protect the parts of the natural world that still exist because they are essential for our future. By actively helping the environment recover and grow, we give ourselves the best chance to continue living on this planet.

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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.