To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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