To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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 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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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 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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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