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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More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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 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’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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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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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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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