I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
WENDELL BERRYThere are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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 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.
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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 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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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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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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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