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.
WENDELL BERRYTo cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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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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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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