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.
WENDELL BERRYIt is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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 latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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 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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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