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.
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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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