All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
WENDELL BERRYIt is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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 the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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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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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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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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