Needs Quotes by Wendell Berry

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a…

— Wendell Berry

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help…

— Wendell Berry

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need…

— Wendell Berry

American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is…

— Wendell Berry

Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse…

— Wendell Berry

We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess…

— Wendell Berry

I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be…

— Wendell Berry

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy 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

If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly…

— Wendell Berry

There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run…

— Wendell Berry

It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary:…

— Wendell Berry

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

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

— 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

The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private.…

— Wendell Berry

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest…

— Wendell Berry

The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because…

— Wendell Berry