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.
WENDELL BERRYFor a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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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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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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