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Wendell Berry Quotes - Page 11

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Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land

Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land

Land, Body

Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.26, Counterpoint

Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

Laughter, Laughing, Facts

Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press

...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.

Heart, Eye, Heaven

Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.180, Counterpoint Press

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Ignorance, Men, Praise

Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press

What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?

Ideas, Superstitious

Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

Best Things, Sermons

Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

World, Impossible, Language

Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Civilization

Wendell Berry (2012). “A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural”, p.41, Counterpoint Press

So friends, every day do something that won't compute.

Simplicity

Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press

There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.

Religious, Growth, Want

"Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry". Interview with Sarah Leonard, ourworld.unu.edu. July 5, 2012.

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

Our Lives, Ifs

Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.66, Counterpoint

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.

Land, Disease, Poverty

Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays”, p.27, Counterpoint Press

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

Dream, Love You, Live Your Life

Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us... What I am saying is that if we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of earth, but also the earth's ability to produce.

Home, Garden, Practice

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

Cost, Bargains

Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making

Want, Made, Chosen

Wendell Berry (2012). “A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural”, p.39, Counterpoint Press

We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.

Theory, Computation

Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

Thinking, Ideas, Wanted

Wendell Berry (2001). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, p.90, Counterpoint Press

No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.

Environmental, Generations, Life Is

Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware, as if by the beating of my heart. Suddenly you flare again in my sight A wild rose at the edge of the thicket where yesterday there was only shade And I am blessed and choose again, That which I chose before.

Blessed, Heart, Wild Roses

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

Thinking, Limits, Ability

Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.

Spiritual, Soul, Wonder

Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.96, Counterpoint

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.

Challenges, Feelings, Risk

I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasn’t invented by us, and we can’t uninvent it. We’ll need some help with that.

Country, Thinking, Cities

If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.

Educational, Tree, Connections

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