A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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 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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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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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