The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Wendell Berry Quotes