For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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 care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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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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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good 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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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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