To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
WENDELL BERRYMy belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
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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 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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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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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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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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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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 primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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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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