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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Whether 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 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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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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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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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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 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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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 a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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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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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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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