If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
WENDELL BERRYTo cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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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:
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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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 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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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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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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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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