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Way Quotes by Wendell Berry
- There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes…
- A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
- 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…
- They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet…
- There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the…
- 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…
- Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear /…
- There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again…
- To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us…
- 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…
- I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure…
- I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old…
- The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and…
- The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
- 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…
- and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its…
- 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 may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is…
- The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another by the hand.…
- You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In…
- We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves…
- The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into…
- It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer…
- Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways…
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