For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
WENDELL BERRYFor a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
WENDELL BERRYThese 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.
WENDELL BERRYBetter than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
WENDELL BERRYWhy should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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.
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 BERRYThe uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
WENDELL BERRYWe learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
WENDELL BERRYThe atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
WENDELL BERRYIt 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.
WENDELL BERRYIf we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
WENDELL BERRYThe latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
WENDELL BERRYWe cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
WENDELL BERRYWe have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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.
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