Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
WENDELL BERRYThe ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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