Wendell Berry Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.

  Wendell Berry

  Self, Choices, World

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.8, Counterpoint Press

• Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice as to the kind and scale of difference they make. If they choose to make too small a difference, they diminish their humanity. If they choose to make too great a difference, they diminish nature, and narrow their subsequent choices; ultimately, they diminish or destroy themselves. Nature, then, is not only our source but also our limit and measure.

  Wendell Berry

  Differences, Choices, Humanity

• As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful. We have no choice then but to become its exploiters, and to lose, by consequence, our place in it. It is only when, by humility, openness, generosity, courage, we make ourselves able to relate to it on its terms that it ceases to be alien.

  Wendell Berry

  Humility, Long, Generosity

• WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a reason for despair unless we decide to continue the destruction. If we decide to continue the destruction, that will not be because we have no other choice. This destruction is not necessary. It is not inevitable, except that by our submissiveness we make it so.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Mean, Land

  Wendell Berry (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.21, Counterpoint Press

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