Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
WENDELL BERRYI’m a writer more than I am a talker.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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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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 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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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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