“ The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should g… Wendell Berry
“ People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us. Wendell Berry
“ The great enemy of freedom 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, n… Wendell Berry
“ A man cannot despair if he can imagine a better life, and if he can enact something of its possibility. It is only when I am ensnarled in the meaningless ordeals and the ordeals of meaninglessness, of… Wendell Berry
“ The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. Wendell Berry
“ Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue.… Wendell Berry
“ I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elab… Wendell Berry
“ To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Wendell Berry
“ The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology. Wendell Berry
“ I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Wendell Berry
“ Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this… Wendell Berry
“ There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love. Wendell Berry
“ No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our rel… Wendell Berry
