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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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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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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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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 any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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 come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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