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Wendell Berry Quotes

Wendell Berry quotes

American Poet August 5, 1934

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The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the root of the sense both of culture and of cult. The ideas of tillage and worship are thus joined in culture. And these words all come from an Indo-European root meaning both "to revolve" and "to dwell." To live, to survive on the earth, to care for the soil, and to worship, all are bound at the root to the idea of a cycle. It is only by... Wendell Berry
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 know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being."
The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being. Wendell Berry
And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just had no doubt. I could see that I lived in the created world, and it was still being created. I would be part of it forever. There was no escape. The Spirit that made it was in it, shaping it and reshaping it, sometimes lying at rest, sometimes standing up and shaking itself, like a muddy horse, and letting the pieces fly. Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "What could be more superstitious than the idea that money..."
What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food? Wendell Berry
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 the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that "to work is to pray." (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy) Wendell Berry
Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine") Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob,..."
If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel? Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and..."
The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass. Wendell Berry
For the sake of “job creation,” in Kentucky, and in other backward states, we have lavished public money on corporations that come in and stay only so long as they can exploit people here more cheaply than elsewhere. The general purpose of the present economy is to exploit, not to foster or conserve. (from 'Compromise, Hell!' published in the November/December 2004 issue of ORION magazine) Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: " And we pray, not for newearth or heaven, but to be quietin..."
... And we pray, not for newearth or heaven, but to be quietin heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here. Wendell Berry
No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences. Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's..."
To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think. Wendell Berry
Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth") Wendell Berry
The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from one technological innovation to the next, which would cause the economy to "grow" and make everything better and better. This of course implied at every point a hatred of the past, of all things inherited and free. All things superceded in our progress of innovations, whatever... Wendell Berry

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