The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
WENDELL BERRYIf 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:
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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