People Quotes by Wendell Berry

The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.

— Wendell Berry

The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.

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A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.

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If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?

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It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.

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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.

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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

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People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully…

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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays…

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and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century…

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It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to…

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The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives…

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There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help…

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“An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security they cannot derive from a national or a global…

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The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small…

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To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in…

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The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want…

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“This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its…

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You've got to reach towards a better language, and you're not going to make it up from scratch; you've got to reach…

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Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here.…

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People are always talking about the first church. The real first church was that gaggle of people who followed Jesus around. We…

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There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers,…

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The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives…

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History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings…

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Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form…

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If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then…

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I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved…

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We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for…

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Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and…

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People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.

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You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

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Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.

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A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.

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When there are enough people on the land to use it but not enough to husband it, then the wildness of the…

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Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.

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The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things,…

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A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other…

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People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people…

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It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad…

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