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Lives Quotes by Wendell Berry
- 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…
- A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
- 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…
- There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the…
- The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses…
- 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…
- ... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community…
- The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.
- True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly…
- History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of…
- 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…
- When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and…
- A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and…
- 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…
- People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure.…
- The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have…
- If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.
- There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with…
- The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease…
- I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the…
More Lives Quotes
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. — Marcus Aurelius