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.
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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it.
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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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The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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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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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
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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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