Care Quotes by Wendell Berry

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

— Wendell Berry

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often…

— Wendell Berry

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what…

— Wendell Berry

Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of…

— Wendell Berry

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there…

— Wendell Berry

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector,…

— Wendell Berry

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately…

— Wendell Berry

You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see,…

— Wendell Berry

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good…

— Wendell Berry

Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here.…

— Wendell Berry

We are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of…

— Wendell Berry

We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess…

— Wendell Berry

It is a fact that the entire Kentucky River system, which the central part of the state complacently depends upon for its…

— Wendell Berry

We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the…

— Wendell Berry

If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close…

— Wendell Berry

“We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the…

— Wendell Berry

There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from…

— Wendell Berry

“If we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental…

— Wendell Berry

“...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what…

— Wendell Berry

Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is…

— Wendell Berry