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title: "31 Needs Quotes By Wendell Berry"
description: "31 Needs quotes by Wendell Berry. Plus more from Wendell Berry and more Needs sayings from other authors."
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> [People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/people-need-to-feed-themselves-next-they-need-to-feed-their-own/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/we-need-better-government-no-doubt-about-it-but-we-also-need-better/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/you-don-t-need-to-be-told-some-things-you-can-sometimes-tell-more-by/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/and-we-pray-not-for-new-earth-or-heaven-but-to-be-quiet-in-heart-and/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/there-are-not-enough-rich-and-powerful-people-to-consume-the-whole/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/if-you-can-read-and-have-more-imagination-than-a-doorknob-what-need/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/to-defend-what-we-love-we-need-a-particularizing-language-for-we-love/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/it-is-certain-i-think-that-the-best-government-is-the-one-that/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/we-know-enough-of-our-own-history-by-now-to-be-aware-that-people/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/we-need-to-confront-honestly-the-issue-of-scale-you-may-need-a-large/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-ve-been-thinking-about-that-question-about-what-city-people-can-do/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/analogies-have-tied-things-together-for-me-personally-the-fundamental/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/a-liberal-education-rests-on-the-assumption-that-nature-and-human/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/we-do-need-a-new-economy-but-one-that-is-founded-on-thrift-and-care/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/that-we-should-have-an-agriculture-based-as-much-on-petroleum-as-the/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/our-politics-and-science-have-never-mastered-the-fact-that-people/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-living-can-t-quit-living-because-the-world-has-turned-terrible/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/people-use-drugs-legal-and-illegal-because-their-lives-are/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/we-do-not-need-to-plan-or-devise-a-world-of-the-future-if-we-take-2/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-reason-to-preserve-wilderness-is-that-we-need-it-we-need/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/there-are-endless-ways-to-amuse-oneself-and-be-idle-and-most-of-them/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/if-we-are-to-have-a-culture-as-resilient-and-competent-in-the-face-of/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/a-person-who-undertakes-to-grow-a-garden-at-home-by-practices-that/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/if-conservationists-will-attempt-to-resume-responsibility-for-their/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/geese-appear-high-over-us-pass-and-the-sky-closes-abandon-as-in-love/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/american-agriculture-is-badly-in-need-of-diversity-another-threat-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/if-you-re-a-writer-and-you-are-at-all-inclined-to-speak-as-a/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/anybody-interested-in-solving-rather-than-profiting-from-the-problems/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/if-they-had-only-themselves-to-consider-lovers-would-not-need-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/it-is-better-to-buy-from-a-small-privately-owned-local-store-than/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/a-proper-community-we-should-remember-also-is-a-commonwealth-a-place/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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## Other authors on Needs

## More by Wendell Berry

> [During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/during-the-last-17-years-i-have-been-working-at-the-restoration-of-a/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/like-the-water-of-a-deep-stream-love-is-always-too-much-we-did-not/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/to-husband-is-to-use-with-care-to-keep-to-save-to-make-last-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-two-families-sundered-in-the-ruin-of-a-friendship-were-united/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 they don't.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-living-can-t-quit-living-because-the-world-has-turned-terrible/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-knew-a-man-who-in-the-age-of-chain-saws-went-right-on-cutting-his/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-concept-of-country-homeland-dwelling-place-becomes-simplified-as/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/a-community-is-the-mental-and-spiritual-condition-of-knowing-that-the/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/that-we-can-prescribe-the-terms-of-our-own-success-that-we-can-live/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-mind-that-comes-to-rest-is-tended-in-ways-that-it-cannot-intend/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-mercy-of-the-world-is-time-time-does-not-stop-for-love-but-it/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-soil-is-the-great-connector-of-our-lives-the-source-and/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-dislike-the-thought-that-some-animal-has-been-made-miserable-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/laughter-is-immeasurable-be-joyful/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/these-are-people-who-are-capable-of-devotion-public-devotion-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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