Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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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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 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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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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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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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.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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 cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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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 care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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