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Wendell Berry Quotes

To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn’t acknowledge limits Picture Quote #1

The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality Picture Quote #1

Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens Picture Quote #1

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life Picture Quote #1

Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into Picture Quote #1

History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings Picture Quote #1

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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires Picture Quote #1

Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world Picture Quote #1

Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens Picture Quote #1

We do need a ‘new economy,’ but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy Picture Quote #1

This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer Picture Quote #1

But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it Picture Quote #1

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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease Picture Quote #1

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy Picture Quote #1

Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of American farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems Picture Quote #1

Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God’s gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them Picture Quote #1

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart Picture Quote #1

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined Picture Quote #1

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The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979 Picture Quote #1

Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run the safest food supply is a local food supply, not a supply that is dependent on a global economy. Nations and regions within nations must be left free and should be encouraged to develop the local food economies that best suit local needs and local conditions Picture Quote #1

When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife’s economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together Picture Quote #1

The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We ‘cannot afford’ to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts Picture Quote #1

I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved Picture Quote #1

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being Picture Quote #1

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To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense Picture Quote #1

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men Picture Quote #1

Monsanto doesn’t care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy Picture Quote #1

Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well Picture Quote #1

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking and good eating Picture Quote #1

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed Picture Quote #1

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To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn’t acknowledge limits (Wendell Berry Quotes) The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality (Wendell Berry Quotes) Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens (Wendell Berry Quotes) The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life (Wendell Berry Quotes) Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into (Wendell Berry Quotes) History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings (Wendell Berry Quotes) He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires (Wendell Berry Quotes) Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world (Wendell Berry Quotes) Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens (Wendell Berry Quotes) We do need a ‘new economy,’ but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy (Wendell Berry Quotes) This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer (Wendell Berry Quotes) But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it (Wendell Berry Quotes) We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease (Wendell Berry Quotes) A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy (Wendell Berry Quotes) Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of American farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems (Wendell Berry Quotes) Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God’s gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them (Wendell Berry Quotes) I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart (Wendell Berry Quotes) To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined (Wendell Berry Quotes) The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979 (Wendell Berry Quotes) Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run the safest food supply is a local food supply, not a supply that is dependent on a global economy. Nations and regions within nations must be left free and should be encouraged to develop the local food economies that best suit local needs and local conditions (Wendell Berry Quotes) When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife’s economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together (Wendell Berry Quotes) The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We ‘cannot afford’ to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts (Wendell Berry Quotes) I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved (Wendell Berry Quotes) What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being. (Wendell Berry Quotes) To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense. (Wendell Berry Quotes) I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.... (Wendell Berry Quotes) Monsanto doesn’t care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy. (Wendell Berry Quotes) Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well (Wendell Berry Quotes) An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking and good eating (Wendell Berry Quotes) If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed (Wendell Berry Quotes)

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