If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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 atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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