Best Wendell Berry Proverbs
- I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old… Bad
- The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be… Answers
- The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and… Access
- There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary… Consume
- But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present. Behavior
- A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written. Family
- Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are… Care
- Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well. Ask
- We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do. Better
- It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable. Experience
- A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means… Education
- The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around. Construction
- We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say. Alive
- We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory. Beyond
- The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of… Art
- There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it. Begin
- But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere… Abuse
- During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still… Abundant
- Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth;… Been
- When there are enough people on the land to use it but not enough to husband it, then the wildness of the soil that we… Begins
- If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean that food is… Beyond
- That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and… Absurd
- The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve… Been
- The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource… Agriculture
- Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don’t buy anything new. Absolutely
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