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.
WENDELL BERRYFor a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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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 latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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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