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:
WENDELL BERRYI’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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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 ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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