My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
WENDELL BERRYThe primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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