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 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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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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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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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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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