We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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And all my life I have dreaded the returnof that year, sure that it still is
somewhere, like a dead enemys soul.
Wendell Berry
If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.
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
Expect the end of the world.
Wendell Berry
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.
Wendell Berry
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.
Wendell Berry
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