To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
WENDELL BERRYTo be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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 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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If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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