To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
WENDELL BERRYWe cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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 have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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When 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.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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 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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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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If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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