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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.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, ch. 1 (1977)

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Berry, Wendell - The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, ch. 1 (1977) | WIST Quotations

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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The Lifeboat Academy Nov 4

If justice doesn’t include the moss, the barnacles, the bees — it isn’t justice yet.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Sep 11, 2025

A quotation from Thoreau

It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Wednesday” (1849)

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WIST Quotations moves again!Nov 11, 2024

A quotation from Jacobs, Jane:

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The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. This is a lesson no one learns by being told. It is learned from the experience of having other people without ties of kinship or close friendship or formal responsibili …
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