To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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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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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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The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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