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.
WENDELL BERRYWhether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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 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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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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