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Wendell Berry Quote: “Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “The mercy of the world is you don’t know what’s going to happen.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man’s life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “Why do the health of the body and the health of the earth decline together?”
Wendell Berry Quote: “To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one’s ability to know; it enfeebles one’s ability to feel and think.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “The word health belongs to a family of words, a listing of which will suggest how far the consideration of health must carry us: heal, whole, wholesome, hale, hallow, holy.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “A man’s life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “The discussion about food doesn’t make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “But, my dear boy, you don’t eat or drink the law, or sit in the shade of it or warm yourself by it, or wear it, or have your being in it. The law exists only to serve.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “To feel at home in a place, you have to have some prospect of staying there.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “We are living even now among punishments and ruins.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “I realized that the story of even so small a place can never be completely told and can never be finished. It is eternal, always here and now, and going on forever.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to “spiritual” subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history’s most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it’s conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call “the economy” or “the free market” is less and less distinguishable from warfare.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “The tractor’s arrival had signaled, among other things, agriculture’s shift from an almost exclusive dependence on free solar energy to a total dependence on costly fossil fuel.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “I don’t think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a ‘movie version’ of a novel?”
Wendell Berry Quote: “Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and must have it before we can eat-may seem absurd. It is absurd. It is nevertheless true.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “The environment,” as we call it, is intimately with us. We’re in it. It’s in us. But also we are it, and it is us.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “It is the privilege and the labor of the apprentice of creation to come with his imagination into the unimaginable, and with his speech into the unspeakable.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don’t love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “The only true and effective “operator’s manual for spaceship earth” is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “The walls of the rational, empirical world are famously porous. What come through are dreams, imaginings, inspirations, visions, revelations. There is no use in stooping over these with a magnifying lens.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “People do not become wealthy by treating one another or the world kindly and with respect.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “There is a use for everyone.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “Why should anybody wait to do what is right until everybody does it? It is not ‘significant’ to love your own children or to eat your own dinner, either. But normal humans will not wait to love or eat until it is mandated by an act of Congress.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “Why should anybody wait to do what is right until everybody does it?”
Wendell Berry Quote: “For too long the ideal role of the individual in our society – the role the talented young have aspired to almost by convention – has been that of the specialist. It has surely become as plain as it needs to be that what we need most now are not the specialists with their narrowed vision and short-range justifications, but men of sympathy and imagination and free intelligence who can recognize and hold themselves answerable to the complex responsibilities of a man’s life in the world.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “Without propriety of scale, and the acceptance of limits which that implies, there can be no form – and here we reunite science and art.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.”
Wendell Berry Quote: “When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to me merely honest: There is nothing to eat, seek it where you will, but of the body of the Lord. The blessed plants and the sea, yield it to the imagination intact.”
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