The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
WENDELL BERRYThe latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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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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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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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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