American - Poet | August 5, 1934 -
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
Wendell Berry
LifeGoodPeopleLovedGood Life
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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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.
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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.
LoveGoodLiveWorldCareTake Care
Whether we or 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.
NatureJusticeMemoryDecisionsKnow
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.
LifeBestDayBetterWorryYou
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
GoodCareAffectionAlwaysGoing
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.
NatureDayShadowI AmHealingHeat
If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
GoodCareLandMessTakeUs
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.
GoodPastBetterBadEscapeStrive
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.
TechnologyGreatPeopleSmallHands
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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