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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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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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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I 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.
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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