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 2 Share Now -
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. - Wendell Berry 3 Share Now -
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. - Wendell Berry 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
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 Berry 9 Share Now -
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology. - Wendell Berry 10 Share Now -