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Wendell Berry Quotes

We are living even now among punishments and ruins Picture Quote #1

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars Picture Quote #1

I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love Picture Quote #1

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries Picture Quote #1

To farm is to be placed absolutely Picture Quote #1

A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind Picture Quote #1

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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world Picture Quote #1

Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer Picture Quote #1

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are Picture Quote #1

The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves Picture Quote #1

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd Picture Quote #1

Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts Picture Quote #1

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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it Picture Quote #1

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities Picture Quote #1

I’d rather rely on mother nature’s wisdom than man’s cleverness Picture Quote #1

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war, but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful Picture Quote #1

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Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in justice or in affirmation of rights or in defense of peace do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation Picture Quote #1

Ask the world to reveal its quietude - not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else Picture Quote #1

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there Picture Quote #1

Love changes, and in change is true Picture Quote #1

A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common Picture Quote #1

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life Picture Quote #1

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My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves Picture Quote #1

New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place, became a reminder of the absence of the hurt or the dead or the missing one. I don’t believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure Picture Quote #1

We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one’s most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures Picture Quote #1

Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here Picture Quote #1

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires Picture Quote #1

The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands Picture Quote #1

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We are living even now among punishments and ruins (Wendell Berry Quotes) An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars (Wendell Berry Quotes) I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love (Wendell Berry Quotes) Never forget: We are alive within mysteries (Wendell Berry Quotes) To farm is to be placed absolutely (Wendell Berry Quotes) A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind (Wendell Berry Quotes) In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world (Wendell Berry Quotes) Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer (Wendell Berry Quotes) It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are (Wendell Berry Quotes) The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves (Wendell Berry Quotes) To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd (Wendell Berry Quotes) Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts (Wendell Berry Quotes) The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it (Wendell Berry Quotes) We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities (Wendell Berry Quotes) I’d rather rely on mother nature’s wisdom than man’s cleverness (Wendell Berry Quotes) I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free (Wendell Berry Quotes) 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 Quotes) The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war, but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful (Wendell Berry Quotes) Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in justice or in affirmation of rights or in defense of peace do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation (Wendell Berry Quotes) Ask the world to reveal its quietude - not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else (Wendell Berry Quotes) Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there (Wendell Berry Quotes) Love changes, and in change is true (Wendell Berry Quotes) A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common (Wendell Berry Quotes) Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life (Wendell Berry Quotes) My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves (Wendell Berry Quotes) New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place, became a reminder of the absence of the hurt or the dead or the missing one. I don’t believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure (Wendell Berry Quotes) We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one’s most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures (Wendell Berry Quotes) Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here (Wendell Berry Quotes) There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires (Wendell Berry Quotes) The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands (Wendell Berry Quotes)

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