Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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 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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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.
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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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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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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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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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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