The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
WENDELL BERRYThere are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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 conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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