We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
WENDELL BERRYWe have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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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 ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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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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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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