We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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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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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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And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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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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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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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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