I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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 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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This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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