The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
WENDELL BERRYFor any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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 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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it.
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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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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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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