To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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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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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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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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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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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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