The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
WENDELL BERRYI come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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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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We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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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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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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