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.
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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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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If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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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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The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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