To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
WENDELL BERRYTo cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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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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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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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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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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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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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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