“People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.”
— Wendell Berry
“The earth is what we all have in common.”
“If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.”
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”
“What I stand for is what I stand on.”
“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.”
“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.”
“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”
“A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.”
“In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.”
“Eating is an agricultural act.”
“When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.”
“We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?”
“It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”
“The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.”
“It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.”
“The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.”
“Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.”
“The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed.”
“To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.”
“Be joyful because it is humanly possible.”
“Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.”
“A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.”
“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.”
“A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.”
“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.”
“And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.”
“There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.”
“But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.”
“We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.”
“If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.”
“We live the given life, and not the planned.”
“The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.”
“Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world’s beauty and abundance.”
“Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.”
“It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.”
“I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.”
“What can’t be helped must be endured.”
“The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.”
“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.”
“Thinking is the most overrated human activity.”
“Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one’s own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.”
“A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.”
“Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.”
“Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.”
“Physical health doesn’t exist apart from the health of other things. Health ultimately involves the community, and the community ultimately involves the place and natural life of that place, so that real health is harmony with the world.”
“You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.”
“In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.”
“The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...”
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