Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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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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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 latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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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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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.
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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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