Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
WENDELL BERRYTo be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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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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 have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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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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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