Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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