For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
WENDELL BERRYBetter than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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 hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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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