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.
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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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 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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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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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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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