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.
WENDELL BERRYAnd 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.
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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