We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
WENDELL BERRYFor any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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