To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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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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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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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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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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And 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.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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