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.
WENDELL BERRYTo be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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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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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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