We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
WENDELL BERRYFor any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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 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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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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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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 the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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