The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
WENDELL BERRYAnd to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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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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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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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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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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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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