I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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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