If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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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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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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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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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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 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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