The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
WENDELL BERRYTo cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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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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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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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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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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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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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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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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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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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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.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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