And 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 am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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 fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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It 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.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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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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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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