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Wendell Berry has 397 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it.…
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more…
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what…
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,…
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a…
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is…
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible…
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His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and…
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He who denies his heritage, has no heritage
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Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors…
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And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage…
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There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory;…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and…
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without…
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Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.
— Tomas Luis De Victoria
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There is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his heritage
— Bible
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