To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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 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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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