The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
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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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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 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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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.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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.
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