The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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 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 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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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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