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.
WENDELL BERRYWe cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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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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