I 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.
WENDELL BERRYThere are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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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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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