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.
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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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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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The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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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