#wendellberry — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from Wendell Berry

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.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, ch. 1 (1977)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/1096/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #conservation #ecology #environment #environmentalism #mutualresponsibility #responsibility #stewardship

A quotation from Wendell Berry

There is, thank God, no teacher-meter, and there is never going to be one. A teacher’s major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student’s grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1985), “Wallace Stegner and the Great Community,” What Are People For? (1990)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/37016/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #child #contribution #education #effect #heritage #impact #posterity #school #teacher #teaching

#GeneenMarieHaugen: "The Temple of the #HolyEarth is everywhere - or *was* everywhere, & perhaps could be yet recovered. As #WendellBerry writes, 'There are no unsacred places;/ there are only sacred places / & desecrated places.'...Desecrated lands ask for our attention & care." https://bit.ly/4sqRlZ3
#SaveOakFlat #ProtectSacredSites #IndigenousRights
Photo: Kennecott Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, UT by Arby Reed, Flickr.

A quotation from Wendell Berry

The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1968), “The Loss of the Future,” Religious Humanism Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 47

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/16987/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #action #compulsion #power #utilization

A quotation from Wendell Berry

The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1968), “The Loss of the Future,” Religious Humanism Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 47

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/16987/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #action #compulsion #power #utilization

A quotation from Wendell Berry

The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1968), “The Loss of the Future,” Religious Humanism Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 47

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/16987/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #action #compulsion #power #utilization

A quotation from Wendell Berry

The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1968), “The Loss of the Future,” Religious Humanism Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 47

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/16987/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #action #compulsion #power #utilization

A quotation from Wendell Berry

The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1968), “The Loss of the Future,” Religious Humanism Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 47

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/16987/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #action #compulsion #power #utilization

A quotation from Wendell Berry

Do not think me gentle
because I speak in praise
of gentleness, or elegant
because I honor the grace
that keeps this world. I am
a man crude as any,
gross of speech, intolerant,
stubborn, angry, full
of fits and furies. That I
may have spoken well
at times, is not natural.
A wonder is what it is.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Poem (1980), “A Warning To My Readers,” A Part, ch. 3

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/82608/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #crudity #failings #humannature #imperfection #warning #appearances

A quotation from Wendell Berry

The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war, but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1991), “Peaceableness Toward Enemies,” sec. 53, Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community, ch. 6 (1993)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/82453/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #America #death #greed #leadership #sacrifice #society #war #wastefulness

#VielenDankBücherschrank für »Against the Machine. On the Unmaking of Humanity« (2025) von #PaulKingsnorth

Die Eröffnungszitate:
»Die Vorstellung fällt mir leicht, dass die nächste große Spaltung der Welt zwischen denen verläuft, die als Geschöpfe leben wollen, und denen, die als Maschinen leben wollen.«
— #WendellBerry

»Gut möglich, dass unsere Bestimmung auf diesem Planeten nicht darin besteht, einen Gott zu verehren, sondern einen zu erschaffen.«
— #ArthurCClarke

#GroßraumPhantastik

A quotation from Wendell Berry

People who live at the lower ends of watersheds cannot be isolationists — or not for long. Pretty soon they will notice that water flows, and that will set them to thinking about the people upstream who either do or do not send down their silt and pollutants and garbage. Thinking about the people upstream out to cause further thinking about the people downstream. Such pondering on the facts of gravity and the fluidity of water shows us that the golden rule speaks to a condition of absolute interdependency and obligation. People who live on rivers — or, in fact, anywhere in a watershed — might rephrase the rule in this way: Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1997), “Watershed and Commonwealth,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/82269/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #libertarian #contamination #dountoothers #downriver #goldenrule #goodneighbor #pollution #upriver #watershed

A quotation from Wendell Berry

The folly at the root of this foolish economy began with the idea that a corporation should be regarded, legally, as “a person.” But the limitless destructiveness of this economy comes about precisely because a corporation is not a person. A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. Unlike a person, a corporation does not age. It does not arrive, as most persons finally do, at a realization of the shortness and smallness of human lives; it does not come to see the future as the lifetime of the children and grandchildren of anybody in particular.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (2000), “The Total Economy,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/82138/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #bigbusiness #corporation #heritage #humanity #life #personhood #perspective #rights

A quotation from Wendell Berry

The folly at the root of this foolish economy began with the idea that a corporation should be regarded, legally, as “a person.” But the limitless destructiveness of this economy comes about precisely because a corporation is not a person. A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. Unlike a person, a corporation does not age. It does not arrive, as most persons finally do, at a realization of the shortness and smallness of human lives; it does not come to see the future as the lifetime of the children and grandchildren of anybody in particular.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (2000), “The Total Economy,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/82138/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #bigbusiness #corporation #heritage #humanity #life #personhood #perspective #rights

A quotation from Wendell Berry

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1999), “The Failure of War,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/81928/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #cycleofviolence #excuse #justification #violence

A quotation from Wendell Berry

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1999), “The Failure of War,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/81928/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #cycleofviolence #excuse #justification #violence

A quotation from Wendell Berry

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1999), “The Failure of War,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/81928/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #cycleofviolence #excuse #justification #violence

A quotation from Wendell Berry

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1999), “The Failure of War,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/81928/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #cycleofviolence #excuse #justification #violence

A quotation from Wendell Berry

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1999), “The Failure of War,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/81928/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #cycleofviolence #excuse #justification #violence

Wendell Berry brought chills down my spine with his poem "Questionnaire," courtesy of Maria Popova, @themarginalian. https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/08/14/wendell-berry-questionnaire-amanda-palmer/

An excerpt:
"5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security,
for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill."

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #WendellBerry #TheMarginalian

A quotation from Wendell Berry

It is impossible not to notice how little the proponents of the ideal of competition have to say about honesty, which is the fundamental economic virtue, and how very little they have to say about community, compassion, and mutual help.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1988), “Economy and Pleasure,” What Are People For? (1990)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/81511/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #business #capitalism #community #compassion #competition #freemarket #honesty #laissezfaire #mutuality #virtue

A quotation from Wendell Berry

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1988), “Economy and Pleasure,” What Are People For? (1990)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/81315/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #economicsystem #economicjustice #competition #humancondition #justice #living #mercy #supplyanddemand #ruthlessness #laissezfaire

A quotation from Wendell Berry

We know that war depresses public dialogue and debate, enlarges executive power, diminishes citizens’ rights, encourages governmental secrecy and deception, and deforms the outlines of human decency. Thus a government making war for the sake of peace, freedom, and human dignity — as it will never cease to declare — will curtail the rights of prisoners, resort to torture, deny its errors, exaggerate its virtues, demonize the enemy, and (as is inevitable in modern war) kill many innocent people, including, of course, many children.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (2005-05-14), Commencement, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, Kentucky

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/81057/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #casusbelli #cognitivedissonance #corruption #deception #government #principles #war #justwar #justwartheory

We’re trained to treat confusion as something to fix quickly.

Instead, what if we understood that not knowing can be the threshold of real engagement. The image of the impeded stream matters here — movement continuing, shaped by resistance, given voice by friction.

Not a detour.
A deepening.

#WendellBerry #BuildingTheLifeboat #StayingWithDifficulty #LifeboatAcademy

We’re taught to evaluate everything through the lens of success or failure.

Berry refuses that frame. He roots responsibility somewhere older and firmer: in what the earth requires if life is to continue.

No guarantees.
No outcomes promised.
Just the question of how to stand in right relationship, here and now.

#WendellBerry #RightRelationship #BuildingTheLifeboat #LifeboatAcademy

A quotation from Wendell Berry

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.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Endorsement blurb for Charles E. Little, The Dying of the Trees (1997)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/80510/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #ecology #environment #judgmentday #nature #politics #publicpolicy

Soil connects everything long before anything becomes visible.
It restores, transforms, and keeps life moving below the surface.
A good reminder for the week: not all progress shows up in obvious ways. Some of it is quiet, patient, and happening just under our feet.

#RegenerativeCulture #WendellBerry #Grounded #SlowGrowth #CommunityRoots #CareIsStrategy

Soil connects everything long before anything becomes visible.
It restores, transforms, and keeps life moving below the surface.
A good reminder for the week: not all progress shows up in obvious ways. Some of it is quiet, patient, and happening just under our feet.

#RegenerativeCulture #WendellBerry #Grounded #SlowGrowth #CommunityRoots #CareIsStrategy

Soil connects everything long before anything becomes visible.
It restores, transforms, and keeps life moving below the surface.
A good reminder for the week: not all progress shows up in obvious ways. Some of it is quiet, patient, and happening just under our feet.

#RegenerativeCulture #WendellBerry #Grounded #SlowGrowth #CommunityRoots #CareIsStrategy

Soil connects everything long before anything becomes visible.
It restores, transforms, and keeps life moving below the surface.
A good reminder for the week: not all progress shows up in obvious ways. Some of it is quiet, patient, and happening just under our feet.

#RegenerativeCulture #WendellBerry #Grounded #SlowGrowth #CommunityRoots #CareIsStrategy

Soil connects everything long before anything becomes visible.
It restores, transforms, and keeps life moving below the surface.
A good reminder for the week: not all progress shows up in obvious ways. Some of it is quiet, patient, and happening just under our feet.

#RegenerativeCulture #WendellBerry #Grounded #SlowGrowth #CommunityRoots #CareIsStrategy

A quotation from Wendell Berry

Supporters of the war are constantly asking those who oppose it: Why don’t you deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side? The answer, so far as I am concerned, is that I do deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side. But I am responsible for the wrongs and atrocities committed by our side.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/80251/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #atrocities #bothsides #democracy #protest #responsibility #usversusthem #war #warcrimes #crimesagainsthumanity

A quotation from Wendell Berry

That this economic system persists and grows larger and stronger in spite of its evident failure has nothing to do with rationality or, for that matter, with evidence. It persists because, embodied now in multinational corporations, it has discovered a terrifying truth: If you can control a people’s economy, you don’t need to worry about its politics; its politics have become irrelevant. If you control people’s choices as to whether or not they will work, and where they will work, and what they will do, and how well they will do it, and what they will eat and wear, and the genetic makeup of their crops and animals, and what they will do for amusement, then why should you worry about freedom of speech? In a totalitarian economy, any “political liberties” that the people might retain would simply cease to matter. If, as is often the case already, nobody can be elected who is not wealthy, and if nobody can be wealthy without dependence on the corporate economy, then what is your vote worth? The citizen thus becomes an economic subject.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1994-09-29), “Conserving Forest Communities,” Kentucky Forest Summit, Louisville

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/17540/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #bigbusiness #capitalism #corporations #economicsystem #economy #oligarchy #politics #subjects #totalitarianism #voting #plutocracy #corporatocracy

A quotation from Wendell Berry

If I solve my dispute with my neighbor by killing him, I have certainly solved the immediate dispute. If my neighbor was a scoundrel, then the world is no doubt better for his absence. But in killing my neighbor, though he may have been a terrible man who did not deserve to live, I have made myself a killer — and the life of my next neighbor is in greater peril than the life of the last.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/80015/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #war #conflict #danger #dispute #escalation #habit #killer #killing #murder #murderer #armedconflict

A quotation from Wendell Berry

Surely the idea of a “limited war” is one of the most dangerously self-deceiving verbal gimmicks ever invented. For though war makes use of reason, as a weapon, it is not reasonable in nature. Its nature is the nature of pride and anger. It follows the brute logic of violent emotion, which points directly toward the use of the greatest available power.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79838/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #anger #brutality #ego #emotion #lethality #limitedwar #power #pride #selfdeception #unreasoning #violence #war #warfare #irrationality

A quotation from Wendell Berry

However, I do belong in the fullest sense of the word to a large group that is having a vast and ever-increasing effect on the world. It is known as the human race. I am aware that as a member of that group I am in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers, thieves, and liars, men for whose birth the creation is worse off and for whose lives other men will still be suffering a hundred years from now. The price of admission to this group is great, and until death not fully known. The cost of getting out is extreme. I find, therefore, no reasonable alternative to membership. But since I am a member on such exacting terms, I will not allow my involvement with this group to remain accidental, but will give my whole allegiance to it and work for its betterment.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79516/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #badpeople #evil #helping #humannature #humanrace #humanity #life #loveyourneighbor #progress

A quotation from Wendell Berry

However, I do belong in the fullest sense of the word to a large group that is having a vast and ever-increasing effect on the world. It is known as the human race. I am aware that as a member of that group I am in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers, thieves, and liars, men for whose birth the creation is worse off and for whose lives other men will still be suffering a hundred years from now. The price of admission to this group is great, and until death not fully known. The cost of getting out is extreme. I find, therefore, no reasonable alternative to membership. But since I am a member on such exacting terms, I will not allow my involvement with this group to remain accidental, but will give my whole allegiance to it and work for its betterment.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79516/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #badpeople #evil #helping #humannature #humanrace #humanity #life #loveyourneighbor #progress

A quotation from Wendell Berry

However, I do belong in the fullest sense of the word to a large group that is having a vast and ever-increasing effect on the world. It is known as the human race. I am aware that as a member of that group I am in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers, thieves, and liars, men for whose birth the creation is worse off and for whose lives other men will still be suffering a hundred years from now. The price of admission to this group is great, and until death not fully known. The cost of getting out is extreme. I find, therefore, no reasonable alternative to membership. But since I am a member on such exacting terms, I will not allow my involvement with this group to remain accidental, but will give my whole allegiance to it and work for its betterment.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79516/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #badpeople #evil #helping #humannature #humanrace #humanity #life #loveyourneighbor #progress

A quotation from Wendell Berry

However, I do belong in the fullest sense of the word to a large group that is having a vast and ever-increasing effect on the world. It is known as the human race. I am aware that as a member of that group I am in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers, thieves, and liars, men for whose birth the creation is worse off and for whose lives other men will still be suffering a hundred years from now. The price of admission to this group is great, and until death not fully known. The cost of getting out is extreme. I find, therefore, no reasonable alternative to membership. But since I am a member on such exacting terms, I will not allow my involvement with this group to remain accidental, but will give my whole allegiance to it and work for its betterment.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79516/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #badpeople #evil #helping #humannature #humanrace #humanity #life #loveyourneighbor #progress

A quotation from Wendell Berry

However, I do belong in the fullest sense of the word to a large group that is having a vast and ever-increasing effect on the world. It is known as the human race. I am aware that as a member of that group I am in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers, thieves, and liars, men for whose birth the creation is worse off and for whose lives other men will still be suffering a hundred years from now. The price of admission to this group is great, and until death not fully known. The cost of getting out is extreme. I find, therefore, no reasonable alternative to membership. But since I am a member on such exacting terms, I will not allow my involvement with this group to remain accidental, but will give my whole allegiance to it and work for its betterment.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79516/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #badpeople #evil #helping #humannature #humanrace #humanity #life #loveyourneighbor #progress

A quotation from Wendell Berry

The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1988), “God and Country,” What Are People For? (1990)

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/17399/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #ecology #Genesis #creation #creator #divinegift #divinepurpose #earth #environment #God #humancondition #nature #stewardship #usufruct #world

A quotation from Wendell Berry

The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1988), “God and Country,” What Are People For? (1990)

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/17399/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #ecology #Genesis #creation #creator #divinegift #divinepurpose #earth #environment #God #humancondition #nature #stewardship #usufruct #world

A quotation from Wendell Berry

The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1988), “God and Country,” What Are People For? (1990)

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/17399/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #ecology #Genesis #creation #creator #divinegift #divinepurpose #earth #environment #God #humancondition #nature #stewardship #usufruct #world

A quotation from Wendell Berry

The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1988), “God and Country,” What Are People For? (1990)

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/17399/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #ecology #Genesis #creation #creator #divinegift #divinepurpose #earth #environment #God #humancondition #nature #stewardship #usufruct #world

A quotation from Wendell Berry

The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1988), “God and Country,” What Are People For? (1990)

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/17399/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #ecology #Genesis #creation #creator #divinegift #divinepurpose #earth #environment #God #humancondition #nature #stewardship #usufruct #world

A quotation from Wendell Berry

What could be more absurd, to begin with, than our attitude of high moral outrage against other nations for manufacturing the selfsame weapons that we manufacture? The difference, as our leaders say, is that we will use these weapons virtuously, whereas our enemies will use them maliciously — a proposition that too readily conforms to a proposition of much less dignity: we will use them in our interest, whereas our enemies will use them in theirs.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1999), “The Failure of War,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

More info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/17802/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #arms #enemies #foreignaffairs #foreignpolicy #foreignrelations #hypocrisy #internationalaffairs #internationalrelations #selfinterest #selfrighteousness #war #weapons

A quotation from Wendell Berry

It is useless to try to adjudicate a long-standing animosity by asking who started it or who is the most wrong. The only sufficient answer is to give up the animosity and try forgiveness, to try to love our enemies and to talk to them and (if we pray) to pray for them. If we can’t do any of that, then we must begin again by trying to imagine our enemies’ children who, like our children, are in mortal danger because of enmity that they did not cause.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (2003-02-09), “A Citizen’s Response,” sec. 4, Citizenship Papers (2003)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/berry-wendell/17860/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #animosity #children #compassion #feud #forgiveness #generations #history #innocents #loveyourenemy #prayer #responsibility #war #hostility #hatred #faultfinding

A quotation from Wendell Berry

It is impossible to think that constitutional government can be suspended in a time of danger, in deference to the greater “efficiency” of centralized power, and then easily or quickly restored. Efficiency may be a political virtue, but only if strictly limited. Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusive power to any branch of government. The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (2003-02-09), “A Citizen’s Response,” sec. 3, Citizenship Papers (2003)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/berry-wendell/17687/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #checksandbalances #Constitution #efficiency #government #inefficiency #power #separationofpowers #tyranny

#wendellberry #localism #metacrisis #mentalhealth #ArtOfLiving

A quotation from Wendell Berry

In nuclear or biological warfare, in which we know we cannot limit effects, how do we distinguish our enemies from our friends — or our enemies from ourselves? Does this not bring us exactly to the madness of terrorists who kill themselves in order to kill others?

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (2003-02-09), “A Citizen’s Response,” sec. 4, Citizenship Papers (2003)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/berry-wendell/78306/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #biologicalwarfare #collateraldamage #killing #nuclearwar #terrorism #terrorist