We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
WENDELL BERRYI 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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