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.
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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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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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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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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I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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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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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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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 fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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