To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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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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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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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 to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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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 atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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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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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.
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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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