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In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
Wendell Berry
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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 -
Eating is an agricultural act.
Wendell Berry -
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 -
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 -
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
Wendell Berry -
Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium.
Wendell Berry
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
Wendell Berry -
We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness 'to act alone,' its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
Wendell Berry -
We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. 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.
Wendell Berry -
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Wendell Berry -
For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
Wendell Berry
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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. 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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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 -
Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
Wendell Berry -
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 -
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 -
The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
Wendell Berry
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We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
Wendell Berry -
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.
Wendell Berry -
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 -
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry