I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
WENDELL BERRYThe atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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 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 atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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 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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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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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.
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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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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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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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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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