I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
WENDELL BERRYThe care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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