It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
WENDELL BERRYFor any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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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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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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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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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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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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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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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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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 the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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 cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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