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When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the nighttime at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children'due south lives may be,
I go and lie downwardly where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come up into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a fourth dimension
I balance in the grace of the world, and am gratis."
― Wendell Berry, The Selected Poems of Wendell Drupe
"People apply drugs, legal and illegal, considering their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their piece of work and detect no remainder in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas amidst us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, considering we have lost each other."
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
"Don't ain and then much ataxia that y'all will exist relieved to encounter your house catch burn."
― Wendell Berry, Farming: a manus book
"Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more than to tell than can be told."
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
"At that place are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is however more than hard than you idea." This is the muse of form. Information technology may be then that form serves the states best when it works every bit an obstacle, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to practise, we have come to our existent work and when nosotros no longer know which mode to go, we accept begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the 1 that sings."
― Wendell Berry
"Dearest the quick profit, the annual enhance,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything set-made. Exist afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will accept a window in your head.
Not even your futurity will be a mystery
whatsoever more than. Your heed will be punched in a card
and shut away in a footling drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they volition telephone call you. When they want yous
to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every 24-hour interval do something
that won't compute. Love the Lord.
Dearest the world. Work for nothing.
Accept all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the authorities and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that costless
republic for which information technology stands.
Requite your approval to all you lot cannot
empathize. Praise ignorance, for what human
has not encountered he has not destroyed.
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Institute sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the wood
that you did not plant,
that y'all volition not alive to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build nether the trees
every grand years.
Listen to feces — put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the globe. Express joy.
Laughter is immeasurable. Exist blithesome
though you lot accept considered all the facts.
And so long equally women exercise not get cheap
for power, please women more than men.
Ask yourself: Will this satisfy
a adult female satisfied to deport a child?
Will this disturb the sleep
of a woman near to giving birth?
Get with your love to the fields.
Lie downwardly in the shade. Rest your head
in her lap. Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon every bit the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to marker the fake trail, the way
you lot didn't become.
Be like the fox
who makes more than tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong management.
Practice resurrection."
― Wendell Drupe
"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is political party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than nosotros do."
― Wendell Drupe
"Do unto those downstream as yous would have those upstream exercise unto you."
― Wendell Drupe
"Nosotros have lived our lives by the assumption that what was proficient for us would exist practiced for the world. We take been wrong. Nosotros must alter our lives so that it volition be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that nosotros make the try to know the world and learn what is good for it."
― Wendell Berry, The Long-Legged Firm
"In a social club in which about everybody is dominated past somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth near the activities of governments and corporations, nearly the quality or value of products, or about the wellness of one'due south own place and economy.
In such a society, too, our private economies will depend less and less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more and more upon property that is institutional and abstruse, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, and shares. And as our private economies become more than abstruse, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family unit and customs life will exist supplanted by a kind of displaced or placeless citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers...
Thus, although nosotros are not slaves in name, and cannot exist carried to market place and sold as somebody else's legal chattels, nosotros are free only within narrow limits. For all our talk most liberation and personal autonomy, there are few choices that we are gratis to brand. What would be the point, for instance, if a bulk of our people decided to be self-employed?
The great enemy of liberty 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 customs - and so destroys republic, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and applied means."
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrestal Essays
"It may be that when we no longer know what to practise,
we accept come to our real work
and when we no longer know which way to get,
we have begun our existent journey.
The listen that is not baffled is non employed.
The impeded stream is the ane that sings."
― Wendell Drupe
"Rats and roaches alive by contest under the laws of supply and demand; information technology is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy."
― Wendell Drupe
"Y'all mustn't wish for another life. You lot mustn't want to be somebody else. What y'all must practise is this:
"Rejoice evermore.
Pray without ceasing.
In everything give thanks."
I am non all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions."
― Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Nobody can discover the globe for somebody else. Only when we notice it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone."
― Wendell Berry, A Identify on Earth
"The complication of our present problem suggests every bit never before that we need to modify our present concept of education. Teaching is not properly an manufacture, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either past task-training or past industry-subsidized research. It's proper employ is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done past gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more than important than other things; information technology means putting commencement things outset."
― Wendell Drupe
"You lot tin can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it."
― Wendell Berry
"Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the reverse of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")"
― Wendell Berry, The Fine art of the Commonplace: The Agrestal Essays
"Be joyful because it is humanly possible."
― Wendell Berry
"It may exist that when nosotros no longer know which style to get that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the i that sings."
― wendell berry
"There are no unsacred places; at that place are only sacred places and desecrated places."
― Wendell Berry, Given
"Love is what carries you, for it is e'er there, fifty-fifty in the dark, or nigh in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery. "
― Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"I don't believe that grief passes abroad. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. Just grief and griever alike endure."
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
"A corporation, substantially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance."
― Wendell Drupe
"The care of the World is our nearly ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our simply hope."
― Wendell Berry
"Y'all accept been given questions to which you lot cannot exist given answers. You will have to live them out - peradventure a little at a time.'
And how long is that going to take?'
I don't know. As long equally y'all live, perhaps.'
That could be a long time.'
I volition tell you a further mystery,' he said. 'It may take longer."
― Wendell Drupe, Jayber Crow
"And the earth cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no thing how long, only only past a spiritual journeying, a journeying of 1 inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home."
― Wendell Berry, The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky'due south Red River Gorge
"I dislike the thought that some animate being has been fabricated miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want information technology to be from an beast that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade."
― Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
"So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot empathize...Ask the questions that take no answers. Put your religion in two inches of humus that will build under the copse every thou years...Express mirth. Exist joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection."
― Wendell Berry, The Country of Union
"A community is the mental and spiritual status of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place ascertain and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. Information technology is the cognition that people accept of each other, their business concern for each other, their trust in each other, the liberty with which they come and go amid themselves."
― Wendell Berry
"I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures past love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed merely by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the earth, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God."
― Wendell Drupe, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
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