The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
WENDELL BERRYWe learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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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.
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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.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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