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.
WENDELL BERRYPrayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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