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.
WENDELL BERRYWe have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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 only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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 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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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 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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