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.
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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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