# Quote — Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

> The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.

- Author: [Wendell Berry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry.md)
- Book: [What Are People For?](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/what-are-people-for.md)
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## More from this book

> Much protest is naive; it expects quick, visible improvement and despairs and gives up when such improvement does not come. Protesters who hold out for longer have perhaps understood that success is not the proper goal. If protest depended on success, there would be little protest of any durability or significance. History simply affords too little evidence that anyone's individual protest is of any use. Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.

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> What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/what-are-people-for/what-we-do-need.md)

> Poetry can be written only because it has been written.

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