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.
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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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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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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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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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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