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Wendell Berry Quotes

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all Picture Quote #1

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it Picture Quote #1

The mercy of the world is you don’t know what’s going to happen Picture Quote #1

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

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

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

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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

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

A farmer’s market is worth more than everything I’ve written Picture Quote #1

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We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory Picture Quote #1

Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don’t buy anything new Picture Quote #1

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

Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers Picture Quote #1

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life Picture Quote #1

What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food? Picture Quote #1

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There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places Picture Quote #1

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed 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

The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you’ll probably be the last one to know exactly how you’re serving the art and how the art is serving you Picture Quote #1

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling Picture Quote #1

You can’t know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction Picture Quote #1

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

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

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

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

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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The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all (Wendell Berry Quotes) You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it (Wendell Berry Quotes) The mercy of the world is you don’t know what’s going to happen (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) 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) We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities (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) A farmer’s market is worth more than everything I’ve written (Wendell Berry Quotes) We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory (Wendell Berry Quotes) Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don’t buy anything new (Wendell Berry Quotes) Love changes, and in change is true (Wendell Berry Quotes) Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers (Wendell Berry Quotes) The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life (Wendell Berry Quotes) What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food? (Wendell Berry Quotes) There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places (Wendell Berry Quotes) Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed (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) The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you’ll probably be the last one to know exactly how you’re serving the art and how the art is serving you (Wendell Berry Quotes) The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling (Wendell Berry Quotes) You can’t know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction (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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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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