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 BERRYIt is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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 it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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