To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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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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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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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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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