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 BERRYMy belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
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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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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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