If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
WENDELL BERRYThe only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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