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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
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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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It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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