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.
WENDELL BERRYI’m a writer more than I am a talker.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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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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The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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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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All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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