Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
WENDELL BERRYIf conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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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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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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