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World Quotes by Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry reminds us that time is the world’s mercy, stopping for neither love nor death. He urges us to accept mystery and avoid arrogance when looking at creation. He also warns that corporations like Monsanto ignore the needs of workers while claiming to feed the world.

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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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The world is not given by our fathers, but borrowed from our children.

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“The world had become pretty generally Ceceliafied.”

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The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

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The world is whole beyond human knowing.

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The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.

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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

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A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food…

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It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and…

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It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable…

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I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.

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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief,…

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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

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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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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it…

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I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar…

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Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we…

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At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came.…

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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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It's mighty hard right now to think of anything that's precious that isn't endangered. There are no sacred and unsacred places; there…

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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see,…

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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good…

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And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a…

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As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of…

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“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. ... We have been…

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Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because…

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But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of…

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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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“The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least…

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I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created…

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If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see…

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In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger,…

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I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the…

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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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When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of…

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It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in…

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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I…

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The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.

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The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.

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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our…

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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

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I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it…

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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean…