There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
WENDELL BERRYWhy should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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