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Wendell Berry Quotes

Wendell Berry quotes

American Poet August 5, 1934

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Wendell Berry quote: "If we do not live where we work and when we work we are..."
If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too. Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly..."
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. Wendell Berry
We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all? by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians? be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our... Wendell Berry
Ths visions of the mind have a debt to reality that it is hard to get the mind to pay when it is under the influence of its visions. Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "Thinking is the most overrated human activity."
Thinking is the most overrated human activity. Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the..."
The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy) Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat."
He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat. Wendell Berry
There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things. Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see..."
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire. Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention..."
He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head. Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are."
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was..."
I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go. Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry quote: "Be joyful because it is humanly possible."
Be joyful because it is humanly possible. Wendell Berry
An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment. Wendell Berry
Again I resume the longlesson: how small a thingcan be pleasing, how littlein this hard world it takesto satisfy the mindand bring it to its rest. Wendell Berry

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