We have no place to begin but where we are.
– Wendell Berry in The Way of Ignorance: The Purpose of a Coherent Community p.79
If we something is wrong we have no choice but to oppose it – for the sake, if nothing else, of our own souls.
– Wendell Berry in The Way of Ignorance: The Purpose of a Coherent Community p.75
The person who will undertake to help without doing harm is going to be a person of some complexity, not easily pleased, probably not a hero, probably not a billionaire.
– Wendell Berry in The Way of Ignorance: The Way of Ignorance p.65
[G]reat probelms call for many small solutions.
– Wendell Berry in The Way of Ignorance: The Way of Ignorance p.65
I bid you to a one-man revolution –
The only revolution that is coming
– Robert Frost in Build Soil
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
To imagine that destructive power might be made harmless by gathering enough power to destroy it is of course perfectly futile.
– Wendell Berry in The Way of Ignorance: The Way of Ignorance p.63
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Wonder has been replaced by a research agenda.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
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