For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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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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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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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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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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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