For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
WENDELL BERRYThere are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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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 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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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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