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 BERRYTo cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
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