The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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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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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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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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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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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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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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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