When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
WENDELL BERRYI come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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 fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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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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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 uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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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