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.
WENDELL BERRYThe 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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