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.
WENDELL BERRYFor a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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 cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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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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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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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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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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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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