To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security they cannot derive from a national or a global… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That we live now in an economy that is not sustainable is not the fault only of a few mongers of power… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“For the sake of “job creation,” in Kentucky, and in other backward states, we have lavished public money on corporations that come… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It has become increasingly clear that the way we farm affects the local community, and that the economy of the local community… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Virtually all of us now share with the most powerful industrialists their remoteness from actual experience of the actual world. Like them,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Children learned about the adult world by participating in it in a small way, by doing a little work and making a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“This economy is based upon consumption, which ultimately serves, not the ordinary consumers, but a tiny class of excessively wealthy people for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The “food system,” according to Professor Shaw, now uses 16.5 percent of all energy used in the United States. This 16.5 percent… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“When nothing is valued for what it is, everything is destined to be wasted. Once the values of things refer only to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
