Air Quotes by Wendell Berry

10 Air quotes by Wendell Berry

For a quick, grounded reminder of how the invisible shapes our world, Berry’s short reflections on air bring his natural wisdom to the fore.

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Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens.

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I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of…

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We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality…

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If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and,…

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With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected…

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It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in…

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The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,…

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The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic…

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New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself,…

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The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies…

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“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.…

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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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The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

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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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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful

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