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.
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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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 is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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