To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
WENDELL BERRYTo cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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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