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Wendell Berry Quotes

Wendell Berry quotes

American Poet August 5, 1934

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You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says. Wendell Berry
This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part "the free world" seems to be regarding it as merely normal. Wendell Berry
I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership) Wendell Berry
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not..."
To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense. Wendell Berry
...Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed... Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal..."
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Wendell Berry
...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 way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else. Wendell Berry
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of the rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness, toward the membership of all that is here. Well, you can read and see what you think. Wendell Berry
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 pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it. Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a..."
A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. Wendell Berry
A tree forms itself in answerto its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the onlything explainable will beyour explanation? Sabbaths 1999 IV Wendell Berry
It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. Wendell Berry
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some..."
If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be? Wendell Berry

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