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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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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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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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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 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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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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