The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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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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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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.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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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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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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