The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
WENDELL BERRYAll 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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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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 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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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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 atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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