The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
WENDELL BERRYI 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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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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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 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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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 prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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And 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.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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