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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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If 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:
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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