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.
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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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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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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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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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