My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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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We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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 care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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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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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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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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