To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
WENDELL BERRYThere are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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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 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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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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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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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And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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