I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
WENDELL BERRYThere are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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 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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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 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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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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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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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