To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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All 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.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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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 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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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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