For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
WENDELL BERRYWhy should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
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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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The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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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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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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 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 ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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