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 BERRYIt 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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