Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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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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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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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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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’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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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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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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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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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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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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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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