Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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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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 fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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 cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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