Wendell Berry Quotes About Growth

Quotes about: Growth

• The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.

  Wendell Berry

  Growth, World, Odd

• There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.

  Wendell Berry

  Religious, Growth, Want

  "Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry". Interview with Sarah Leonard, ourworld.unu.edu. July 5, 2012.

• There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for petroleum. To have a growth economy based on a declining fuel supply is bound to be stressful.

  Wendell Berry

  Growth, Fuel, Economy

  Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.167, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

  Wendell Berry

  Maturity, Growth, Decay

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