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.
WENDELL BERRYThe old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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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The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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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 the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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