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A man’s life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary. (Wendell Berry Quotes)
At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light (Wendell Berry Quotes)
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. (Wendell Berry Quotes)
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun. (Wendell Berry Quotes)
I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it’s being ruined is hard. (Wendell Berry Quotes)
Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from Feminism, the Body, and the Machine) (Wendell Berry Quotes)
The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. 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. (Wendell Berry Quotes)
A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes. (Wendell Berry Quotes)
To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one’s ability to know; it enfeebles one’s ability to feel and think. (Wendell Berry Quotes)
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long. (Wendell Berry Quotes)
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts. (Wendell Berry Quotes)
The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world. (Wendell Berry Quotes)
Don’t pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods (Wendell Berry Quotes)
There’s a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives. (Wendell Berry Quotes)
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. (Wendell Berry Quotes)
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 (Wendell Berry Quotes)
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free (Wendell Berry Quotes)
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits (Wendell Berry Quotes)
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope (Wendell Berry Quotes)
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 (Wendell Berry Quotes)
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival (Wendell Berry Quotes)
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy (Wendell Berry Quotes)
Whether we and 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 Berry Quotes)
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in. Farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat (Wendell Berry Quotes)
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup (Wendell Berry Quotes)
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free (Wendell Berry Quotes)
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 (Wendell Berry Quotes)
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? (Wendell Berry Quotes)
I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free (Wendell Berry Quotes)
Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place (Wendell Berry Quotes)