The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
WENDELL BERRYAll 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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 not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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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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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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 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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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 have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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