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Worth Quotes by Wendell Berry
- For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any…
- There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
- Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It…
- History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of…
- A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
- 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…
More Worth Quotes
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. — Marcus Aurelius
- What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Teresa of Avila
- The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. — Robert Baden-Powell
- No one can figure out your worth but you. — Pearl Bailey
- A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth… — Antonio Banderas
- Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books… — Russell Banks
- I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making. — Javier Bardem
- I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have… — Brigitte Bardot