The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
WENDELL BERRYWe cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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