The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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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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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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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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