[G]reat probelms call for many small solutions.
– Wendell Berry in The Way of Ignorance: The Way of Ignorance p.65
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Hurrah for revolution and more cannon shot!
A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot.
Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!
The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
– William Butler Yeats in The Great Day
We are killing our world on the theory that it was never alive but is only an accidental concatenation of materials and mechanical processes.
– Wendell Berry in The Way of Ignorance: The Way of Ignorance p.62
To have a culture, mostly the same people have to live mostly in the same place for a long time.
– Wendell Berry in The Way of Ignorance: Imagination in Place p.57
Wonder has been replaced by a research agenda.
– Wendell Berry in The Way of Ignorance: Imagination in Place p.55
[W]hen one passes from any abstract order, whether that of the consumer economy or Ransom’s “Statement of Principles” or a brochure from the Extension Service, to the daily life and work of one’s own farm, one passes from a relatively simplicity into a complexity that is irreducible except by disaster and ultimately is incomprehensible. It is the complexity of the life of a place uncompromisingly itself, which is at the same time the life of the world, of all Creation. One meets not only the weather and the wildness of the world, but also the limitations of one’s knowledge, intelligence, character, and bodily strength. To do this, of course, is to accept the place as an influence.
– Wendell Berry in The Way of Ignorance: Imagination in Place p.48
If a man has no sense of meaning, he will numb himself with pleasure.
– Donald Miller paraphrasing Viktor Frankl in Scary Close p.183
[I]f we live behind a mask we can impress but we can’t connect.
– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.171
Environments in which we are encouraged to hide our faults are toxic.
– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.158
[F]ear of letting people down is one of the primary reasons people procrastinate.
– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.143
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