To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
WENDELL BERRYThis, 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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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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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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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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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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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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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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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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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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