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Time Quotes by Wendell Berry
- We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
- The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
- If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience…
- 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,…
- This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking…
- I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What…
- Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by…
- For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
- Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and…
- You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well…
- Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and…
- 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…
- When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and…
- Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money.…
- Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists.…
- You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a…
- 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,…
- My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be…
- 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…
- But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone…
- If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine…
- History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has…
- We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations,…
- 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,…
- The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
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