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.
WENDELL BERRYA longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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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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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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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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