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.
WENDELL BERRYThis, 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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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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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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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 come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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 atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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