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Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
American Poet
Born: Aug 5, 1934
Better Good Nature People Will You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
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
Nature Justice Memory Party Politicians Sense Our More Longer Votes Know She Deals Than Whether Decisions
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
Good Better Will Past Adding Our Definition Strive Bad Good Reason Something Only Escape May Reason
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. Wendell Berry
Nature Justice Memory Party Politicians Sense Our More Longer Votes Know She Deals Than Whether Decisions
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? Wendell Berry
Time Gardening Enough Our Most Learn Deal How How Much Question Urgent Much Gardens
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Wendell Berry
Hope Nature Survival Our Earth Only Remains Renewal Cherish Legitimate Foster
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
Love Good World Care Will Live Willing Take Take Care Know Condition To Love
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
Hope Care Responsibility Our Earth Pleasing Ancient Worthy Only Remains Most Renewal Cherish After Foster
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
Time History Peace Grief Grace World Rest Free Wild Come Am Forethought Tax Who Lives Things
An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment. Wendell Berry
Commitment People National Local Security Economy Global Global Economy Principle Genuinely Offers Controlled Cannot Derive Measure Who
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
Great Technology People Wealth Aims Seem Small Concentration Replacement Close Hands Fulfillment Two
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
Life World Our Gifts Only Sacred Conditional Places Belief
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. Wendell Berry
Food Absurd Clearly Interested Production
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
Death Daily Destruction Breakfast Ought Our Paper Out Scare Horrible Fact Read Without Wits Hearts Break Us Interrupting Numerical
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. Wendell Berry
Nature Resume Welfare Will Responsibility Back Eat Directly Previous Attempt Fairly Concerns Led Need
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. Wendell Berry
Life Best Day You Every Day Better Will Every Worry Possibility About Open Days Stick Going Hold Your Right
For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless. Wendell Berry
Suffering Our Sin Endless Any Suffer Why
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. Wendell Berry
Positive Eat Lots Interest Should Farming Reasons Why
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
Day Nature Healing Own Trees Shadow My Own Bound Am Climbed Up Heat Any Orchard Where Woods Place Public Ground Planted Vines
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology. Wendell Berry
Good Technology Latest Except Always Anything Producers
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. Wendell Berry
Death Maturity Living Birth Entirely Through Passing Fertility Decay Again Cycle Creatures Growth Living Creatures
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
Oppose Complicit Trying May Things
The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979. Wendell Berry
Time Plant Power Opposing Indiana Only Only Time Power Plant Hill Arrested Been Marble Nuclear Nuclear Power

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