The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
WENDELL BERRYThe atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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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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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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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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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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 cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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