I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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 fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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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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It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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