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Much Quotes by Wendell Berry
- We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
- Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become…
- This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal,…
- It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life…
- There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes…
- A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not…
- A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs…
- 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.
- 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…
- Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
- [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…
- We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life…
- Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we cannot…
- You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In…
- I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about…
- No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small…
- It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen…
- He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
- Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your…
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