To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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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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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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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