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Our 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…
- ... 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.
- 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…
- 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…
More Our 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
- 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
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I… — George Matthew Adams
- When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. — Ezra Taft Benson
- The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant… — Nicolas Berggruen
- Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of… — Irving Berlin
- The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and… — Annie Besant
- Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to… — Bjork