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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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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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 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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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 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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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 hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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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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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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