To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
WENDELL BERRYIt means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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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 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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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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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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