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 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.
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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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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I 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.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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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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