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.
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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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 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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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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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 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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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