May Quotes by Wendell Berry

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that…

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Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may…

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So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed…

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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

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We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

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It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when…

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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it.…

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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off…

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

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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go…

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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time.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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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and…

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There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization,…

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No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly…

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Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep…

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We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture…

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To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The…

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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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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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During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed…

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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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And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water.…

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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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The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods…

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You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a…

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That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we…

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The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but…

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You've got to reach towards a better language, and you're not going to make it up from scratch; you've got to reach…

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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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However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem…

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Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and…

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The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers…

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

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