Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
WENDELL BERRYFor any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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