Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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.
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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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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 cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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