Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
WENDELL BERRYI’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
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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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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 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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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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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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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