The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
WENDELL BERRYThere are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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