Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
WENDELL BERRYFor any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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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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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 atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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