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.
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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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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I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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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 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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