All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
WENDELL BERRYWe have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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