Community Quotes by Wendell Berry

“A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.”

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.

— Wendell Berry

“The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.”

— Wendell Berry

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

— Wendell Berry

“The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)”

— Wendell Berry

A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have…

— Wendell Berry

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words,…

— Wendell Berry

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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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often…

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We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

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Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood…

— Wendell Berry

Physical health doesn't exist apart from the health of other things. Health ultimately involves the community, and the community ultimately involves the…

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In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity…

— Wendell Berry

... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family…

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The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector,…

— Wendell Berry

“Our present idea of freedom is only the freedom to do as we please: to sell ourselves for a high salary, a…

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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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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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A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as…

— Wendell Berry

“Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both directions. To farm well requires an elaborate…

— Wendell Berry

“What happens under the rule of specialization is that, though society becomes more and more intricate, it has less and less structure.…

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“Finally Bill Mixter would lower his head, lay his bow upon the strings, and draw out the first notes of a tune,…

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If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other…

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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…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

“If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my…

— Wendell Berry

Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the…

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“I thought that some of the hymns bespoke the true religion of the place. The people didn't really want to be saints…

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“No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home…

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“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

“My vision of the gathered church that had come to me... had been replaced by a vision of the gathered community. What…

— Wendell Berry

I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of…

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It is better to buy from a small, privately owned local store than from a chain store. It is better to buy…

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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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“I loved the different voices all singing one song, the various tones and qualities, the passing lifts of feeling, rising up and…

— Wendell Berry

A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the…

— Wendell Berry

“In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity…

— Wendell Berry

Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and…

— Wendell Berry

History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every…

— Wendell Berry