Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
WENDELL BERRYTo be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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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 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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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 was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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