I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
WENDELL BERRYFor a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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 learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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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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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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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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The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
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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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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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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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