I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
WENDELL BERRYTo cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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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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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 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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The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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