We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
WENDELL BERRYThe past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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 cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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 latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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