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.
WENDELL BERRYThe uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to 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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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’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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’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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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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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