The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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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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All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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