If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
WENDELL BERRYTo be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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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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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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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