All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
WENDELL BERRYTo be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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