Wendell Berry Short Quotes

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We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

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Poetry can be written only because it has been written.

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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.

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The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.

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Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don't buy anything new.

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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

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Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium.

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Though we pretend otherwise, the unknown increases with the known.

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An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

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Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

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You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.

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To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart.

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The history of the white man's use of the earth in America is a scandal.

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

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Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

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A mind that has confronted ruin for years
Is half or more a ruined mind.

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

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

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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

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

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There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

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I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

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Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

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You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.

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