It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
WENDELL BERRYThere are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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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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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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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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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.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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