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Creatures Quotes by Wendell Berry
- We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
- 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…
- The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty…
- We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner…
- We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the little circle of…
- Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all…
- I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment is…
- People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and…
- The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,…
- Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with…
- It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures…
- If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in…
- Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures…
- If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine…
- I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that…
- Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God's…
- I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle…
- The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
More Creatures Quotes
- I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J. J. Abrams
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has… — Marcus Aurelius
- God's first creature, which was light. — Francis Bacon
- As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
- I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few,… — Abigail Adams
- To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. — Honore de Balzac