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Wendell Berry Quotes about Community

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The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.

Community, Age, Care

Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.70, Counterpoint

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

Government, Community, Doubt

Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.86, Counterpoint

The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.

Mean, Community, Political

Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.58, Counterpoint

Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and households.

Community, Heaven, Soul

Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.319, Counterpoint

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

Land, Community, Use

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.

Mutual Help, Community, Helping

Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.144, Counterpoint Press

A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy. (pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy")

Spiritual, Racism, Community

Wendell Berry (2010). “The Hidden Wound”, p.135, Counterpoint Press

It is better to buy from a small, privately owned local store than from a chain store. It is better to buy a good product than a bad one. Do not buy anything you don't need. Do as much as you can for yourself. If you cannot do something for yourself, see if you have a neighbor who can do it for you. Do everything you can to see that your money stays as long as possible in the local community.

Long, Community, Environmental

Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)

Believe, Community, Membership

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

Community, Affluence

Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.59, Counterpoint

Physical health doesn't exist apart from the health of other things. Health ultimately involves the community, and the community ultimately involves the place and natural life of that place, so that real health is harmony with the world.

Real, Community, World

People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.

People, Community, Needs

A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.

Community, Environmental, Common

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

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.

Regret, Community, Forever

... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world.

Drinking, Community, Environmental

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

We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.

Ecosystems, Community, Environmental

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

The "developed" nations had given to the "free market" the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands, and communities, their forests, wetlands, and prairies, their ecosystems and watersheds. They had accepted universal pollution and global warming as normal costs of doing business.

Sacrifice, Ecosystems, Community

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

and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.

Somewhere Else, People, Community

Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of community, then, we are speaking of a complex connection not only among human beings or between humans and their homeland but also between human economy and nature, between forest or prairie and field or orchard, and between troublesome creatures and pleasant ones. All neighbors are included.

Land, People, Community

Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.

Community, Natural, Should

"The Needed Resurgence of Trade Schools" by Tobias Roberts, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2017.

You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.

Men, Community, Progress

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

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