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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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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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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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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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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