I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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 cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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