Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
WENDELL BERRYThe fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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 comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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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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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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