The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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 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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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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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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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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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