To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
WENDELL BERRYWe learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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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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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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