There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
WENDELL BERRYThe care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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 cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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 it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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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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