The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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.
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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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The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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