A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.... What I am saying is that if we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of the earth, but also the earth's ability to produce.
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If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds.... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.Wendell Berry
Whatever
Is unsure is possible, and life is bigger
Than flesh.
Wendell Berry
Even an hour of love is a moral predicament, a blessing
a man may be hard up to be worthy of.
Wendell Berry
In a dream I meet
my dead friend.
Wendell Berry
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
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
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