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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Better 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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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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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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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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