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 BERRYThe latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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