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Use Quotes by Wendell Berry
- Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of…
- With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market,…
- 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,…
- There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this…
- The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
- To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry…
- 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,…
- But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere…
- During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still…
- When there are enough people on the land to use it but not enough to husband it, then the wildness of the soil that we…
- The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource…
- One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity…
- The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to…
- It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.
- People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure.…
More Use Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses… — Frank Abagnale
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use,… — Rowan Atkinson
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make. — Margaret Atwood
- Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other… — Margaret Atwood