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 BERRYAnnual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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