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.
WENDELL BERRYWe’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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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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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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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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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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