Humans Quotes by Wendell Berry

The world is whole beyond human knowing.

— Wendell Berry

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

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The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.

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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live…

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We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

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

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We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to…

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

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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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But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of…

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One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the…

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

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

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True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one…

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When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government,…

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I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh.…

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From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful;…

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We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human…

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The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of…

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How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and…

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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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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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To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human.…

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A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that…

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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…

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We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized…

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The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on…

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The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems…

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Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors…

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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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Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice…

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We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the…

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When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of…

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Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact…

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

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To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's…

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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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If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean…

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This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale…

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