For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
WENDELL BERRYIf 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.
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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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 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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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 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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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 cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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 atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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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 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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