The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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 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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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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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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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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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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All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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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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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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