We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
WENDELL BERRYIt 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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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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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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