We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
WENDELL BERRYAnd 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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:
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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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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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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