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.
WENDELL BERRYThe ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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 uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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