A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
WENDELL BERRYAnd 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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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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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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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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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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If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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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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