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 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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 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 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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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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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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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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