“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
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Category: peace
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The past is our definition. We may
“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
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Category: good
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I am not bound for any public
“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
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Category: nature
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We cannot know the whole truth, which
“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.”
— Wendell Berry
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Category: alone
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest
“Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.”
— Wendell Berry
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To cherish what remains of the Earth
“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.”
— Wendell Berry
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To cherish what remains of the Earth
“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.”
— Wendell Berry
Author: Wendell Berry
Category: nature
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Whether we and our politicians know it
“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
Author: Wendell Berry
Category: nature
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I come into the peace of wild
“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
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Category: history
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To be interested in food but not
“To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.”
— Wendell Berry
Author: Wendell Berry
Category: food
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It is a horrible fact that we
“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
Author: Wendell Berry
Category: death
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