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Good Quotes by Wendell Berry
- The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will…
- The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
- The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to…
- 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…
- There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the…
- The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
- A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good…
- An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating
- We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future…
- The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.
- We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
- Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
- The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an…
- 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…
- There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
- 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…
- I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to…
- We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We…
- [All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is…
- 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…
- To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's intelligence, not by…
- In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is…
- When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from heaven. And you…
- For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity…
- Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle