I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
WENDELL BERRYBetter than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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 care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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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.
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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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It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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