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.
WENDELL BERRYThe ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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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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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’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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 learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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 fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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