Products Quotes by Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry’s words about products are rooted in his deep connection to land and community. In just nine lines he offers a grounded view that reminds us how the things we make shape the world around us.

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To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature,…

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The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as…

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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…

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Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here.…

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Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters,…

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

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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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Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy…

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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…

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

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“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the…

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“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.…

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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

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The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

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I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it…

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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful

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