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.
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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We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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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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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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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 ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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 learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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