Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
WENDELL BERRYTo cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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