Wendell Berry quotes - page 3

For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. (Wendell Berry)
We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself. View quote
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To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain. View quote
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The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it. View quote
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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire. View quote
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We have become blind to the alternatives to violence. View quote
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To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know. View quote
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Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection. View quote
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How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing. View quote
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Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. View quote
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Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone. (Wendell Berry)
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it. View quote
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Be joyful because it is humanly possible. View quote
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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. View quote
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Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery. View quote
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There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. View quote
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I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade. View quote
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... And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here. View quote
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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy” or "the free market” is less and less distinguishable from warfare. View quote
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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling. View quote
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I have always loved a window, especially an open one. (Wendell Berry)
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 of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race. View quote
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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead. View quote
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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death. View quote
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I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard. View quote
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