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.
WENDELL BERRYI’m a writer more than I am a talker.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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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 hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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