Best Wendell Berry Quotes
- Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the… Book
- Never forget: We are alive within mysteries. Alive
- The earth is what we all have in common. All
- Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become… Accounted
- If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk. Assumption
- If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health… All
- Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of… Adequate
- With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market,… Air
- This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal,… Abuse
- The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or… All
- In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or… Competent
- People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a… Automobile
- I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children;… Borrowed
- We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself. Beings
- To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to… Abet
- It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life… Animal
- The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to… All
- There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes… Amuse
- As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,… Alien
- As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,… Able
- For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any… Alive
- You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough Affirm
- We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An… Based
- A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land. Agriculture
- It's the impeded stream that sings Impeded
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