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.
WENDELL BERRYThe uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
WENDELL BERRYFor any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
WENDELL BERRYThe past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
WENDELL BERRYA longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
WENDELL BERRYAll right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
WENDELL BERRYThe care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
WENDELL BERRYWhether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
WENDELL BERRYThe 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.
WENDELL BERRYIt is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
WENDELL BERRYThere are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
WENDELL BERRYPrayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
WENDELL BERRYFor a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
WENDELL BERRYWhy should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
WENDELL BERRYThe atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
WENDELL BERRYIt 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.
WENDELL BERRYThe primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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