Wendell Berry Quotes about Simplicity

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So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the

So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

Wendell Berry

Government, Simplicity, Doe

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

We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.

Wendell Berry

Nature, War, Simplicity

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