We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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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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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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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If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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 cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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 latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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