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.
WENDELL BERRYWhen 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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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 only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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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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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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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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