Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
WENDELL BERRYA longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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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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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 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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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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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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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