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Makes Quotes by Wendell Berry
- Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob, a mob overflowing…
- The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that…
- Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.
- 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…
- One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity…
- When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
- Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children,…
- Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the…
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