Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
WENDELL BERRYThere are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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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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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it.
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