For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
WENDELL BERRYThere are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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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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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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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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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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