Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
WENDELL BERRYWhether 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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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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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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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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