The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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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This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it.
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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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