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Terms Quotes by Wendell Berry
- 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,…
- 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,…
- 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,…
- Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth;…
- I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that…
- Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love…
- 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…
More Terms Quotes
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to… — David Attenborough
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. — Teresa of Avila
- I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new… — Dan Aykroyd
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based… — Mahmoud Abbas
- This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come… — Mikhail Bakunin
- All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that… — Christian Bale
- In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me… — Christian Bale
- Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. — Honore de Balzac
- The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running. — Dennis Banks
- For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. — Gerry Adams