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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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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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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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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 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 latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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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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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