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Place Quotes by Wendell Berry
- I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the…
- As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,…
- Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy…
- 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…
- Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God?…
- But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way…
- I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy…
- To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money,…
- 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…
- If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean that food is…
- I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world…
- 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…
- 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…
- A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social…
- I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within…
- Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings…
- If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow…
- I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that…
- As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of its winds. I…
- We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down.…
- New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place,…
- 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 difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with…
- A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.”…
- From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful; from the point…
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- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
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- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
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- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden