For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
WENDELL BERRYFor any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
WENDELL BERRYIf 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:
WENDELL BERRYWe cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
WENDELL BERRYIf we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
WENDELL BERRYThe only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
WENDELL BERRYTo cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
WENDELL BERRYWe learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
WENDELL BERRYIt is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
WENDELL BERRYMy belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
WENDELL BERRYAnnual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
WENDELL BERRYBetter than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
WENDELL BERRYThe primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
WENDELL BERRYAn 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.
WENDELL BERRYWe have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
WENDELL BERRYAnd to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
WENDELL BERRYI’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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