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.
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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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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 the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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