Best Wendell Berry Sayings
- There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business… Business
- The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have… Almost Every
- There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this… Absolute
- There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it. Ground
- The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner. Everywhere
- This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking… God
- Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint. Communal
- A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life. Change
- Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know… Age
- A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes. Accurate
- The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem… Aim
- When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to… All
- I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better… Agriculture
- The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value. Artificial
- I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What… Absence
- The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people… Alarming
- Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy… Another Place
- Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Inspirational
- Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. All
- The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty… Beings
- We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities. Better
- All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold… All
- If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for… Ardently
- We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species. Destructive
- We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy. Act
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