Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
WENDELL BERRYThe atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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The 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.
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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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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’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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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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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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