The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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 come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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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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The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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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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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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