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Wendell Berry Quotes: We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
         

We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.


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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.



The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.



It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.



Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.



Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.



I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.



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

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



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

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



Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.



Whether we and 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.

Whether we and 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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I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.

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