I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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 latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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