The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
WENDELL BERRYMy belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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I 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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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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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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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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