If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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