QUOTES by Wendell Berry
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For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
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If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.
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It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.
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You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
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Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.
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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
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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.
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It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
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What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.
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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.
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It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.
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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.
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Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
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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.
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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
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If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
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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.
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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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.
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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
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I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
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If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?
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...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.
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If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.
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One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
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