The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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 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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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 atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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