Culture Quotes by Wendell Berry

Specialization is the great evil of civilization.

— Wendell Berry

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

— Wendell Berry

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

— Wendell Berry

The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never…

— Wendell Berry

The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is…

— Wendell Berry

As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from…

— Wendell Berry

“The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath…

— Wendell Berry

The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable… It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and…

— Wendell Berry

The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road…

— Wendell Berry

The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy…

— Wendell Berry

Without a complex knowledge of one's place and without the faithfulness to one's place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable…

— Wendell Berry

For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because…

— Wendell Berry

We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

“It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as…

— Wendell Berry

“Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken by as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

“One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have us believe that we can…

— Wendell Berry

“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made…

— Wendell Berry