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.
WENDELL BERRYThe atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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 am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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 be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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