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.
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’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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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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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.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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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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