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.
WENDELL BERRYThe ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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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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If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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