The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
WENDELL BERRYUrban 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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 cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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.
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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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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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