A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
WENDELL BERRYI 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional 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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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