The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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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It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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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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 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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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 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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