Wendell Berry quotes - page 4

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone. (Wendell Berry)
It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole. View quote
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. View quote
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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food. View quote
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After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down. View quote
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It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines. View quote
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Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons. View quote
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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world. View quote
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The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen. View quote
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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) View quote
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Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. (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. View quote
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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. View quote
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What can't be helped must be endured. View quote
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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. View quote
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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires. View quote
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Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens. View quote
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The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass. View quote
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The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness. View quote
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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. View quote
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What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food? (Wendell Berry)
A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence. View quote
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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. View quote
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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. View quote
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The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being. View quote
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