Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
WENDELL BERRYThe only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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