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.
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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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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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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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
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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 two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
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