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.
WENDELL BERRYWe cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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 have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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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