My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional 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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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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 conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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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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