Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
WENDELL BERRYFor a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
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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’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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