There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
WENDELL BERRYWe cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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