"To cherish what remains of the Earth and……" — Wendell Berry
"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."
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394 Quotes by Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry has 394 quotes on this site.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad…
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she…
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
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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…
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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…
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know…
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover…
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More Cherish Quotes
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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
— John Adams
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is…
— John Quincy Adams
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
— Wendell Berry
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
— Barbara Bush
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I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that…
— Wilford Brimley
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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the…
— Willa Cather
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We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this…
— Cesar Chavez
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The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not…
— Michael Chertoff
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I am poor and feeble, persecuted and vulnerable, Yeshua conquered me, and with the New Man he honored me, He…
— Daniel Zion
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With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but…
— James Crawford
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like…
— Louise Erdrich
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Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something…
— Sun Tzu
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