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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 42 quotes by Wendell Berry Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. A prolific author, he has written dozens of novels, short stories, poems, and essays. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berry was named the... Read full biography of Wendell Berry → 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good... → 0 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. 0 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... → 0 The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have... → 0 We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? 0 An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy... → 0 I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.... → 0 We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and... → 0 The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding... → 0 To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. 0 Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. 0 It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. 0 The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. 0 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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