Wendell Berry Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.

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  Independent, Garden, Thinking

• To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

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  Nature, Garden, Earth Day

• The earth is what we all have in common.

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  Nature, Earth Day, Environmental

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.97, Counterpoint

• Eating is an agricultural act.

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  Agriculture, Environment, Eating

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.282, ReadHowYouWant.com

• We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

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  Land, Flags, Environment

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.73, Counterpoint

• We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.

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  Nature, War, Simplicity

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

• A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.

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  Land, Agriculture, People

• You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

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  Rivers, Environmental, Affirmation

• The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.

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  Environment, Natural, Term

  Wendell Berry (2017). “The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry”, p.160, Penguin UK

• Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by the careless acts of millions of people. It cannot be saved by heroic feats of gigantic technology, but only by millions of small acts and restraints, conditioned by small fidelities, skills, and desires. Soil loss is ultimately a cultural problem; it will be corrected only by cultural solutions.

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  Loss, Technology, Small Acts

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.202, Counterpoint

• I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment is in you. It's passing through you. You're breathing it in and out. You and every other creature.

  Wendell Berry

  Breathing, Lines, Environment

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