My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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 care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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 ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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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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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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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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 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 fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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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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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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