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A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray (Wendell Berry Quotes)
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never (Wendell Berry Quotes)
It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave (Wendell Berry Quotes)
It’s impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit (Wendell Berry Quotes)
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing (Wendell Berry Quotes)
We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it? (Wendell Berry Quotes)
Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world’s beauty and abundance (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)
I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will (Wendell Berry Quotes)
We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist (Wendell Berry Quotes)
You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land (Wendell Berry Quotes)
True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives (Wendell Berry Quotes)
To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings (Wendell Berry Quotes)
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past (Wendell Berry Quotes)
All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today (Wendell Berry Quotes)
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest (Wendell Berry Quotes)
Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us (Wendell Berry Quotes)
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 Quotes)
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature (Wendell Berry Quotes)
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time (Wendell Berry Quotes)
I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle (Wendell Berry Quotes)
We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and household and neighborhoods (Wendell Berry Quotes)
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves (Wendell Berry Quotes)
I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand (Wendell Berry Quotes)
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 (Wendell Berry Quotes)
We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it (Wendell Berry Quotes)
Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time? (Wendell Berry Quotes)
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other (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)
Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating (Wendell Berry Quotes)