If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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 the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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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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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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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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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 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 latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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