I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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 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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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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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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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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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.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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