And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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 fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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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 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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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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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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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’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it.
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