When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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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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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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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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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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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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