A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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.
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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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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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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 come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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 cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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