We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of 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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