A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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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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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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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’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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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 atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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