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:
WENDELL BERRYThe ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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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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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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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