We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
WENDELL BERRYI 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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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 come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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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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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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