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.
WENDELL BERRYThese 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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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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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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 latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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