To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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 cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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