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
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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Wonder has been replaced by a research agenda.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
If you wish to steal farm products or coal or timber from a rural region, you will find it much less troubling to do so if you believe that the people are too stupid and violent to deserve the things you wish to steal from them.
– Wendell Berry in The Way of Ignorance: Imagination in Place p.49
[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
The video is in honour of Ireland and this fantastic article in honour of Saint Patrick.
If you don’t know, the 6 Nations is going on right now which is the biggest European rugby tournament of the year. It’s between Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, France, and Italy. Right now, with only one more weekend of matches left, it could go any one of three ways: to Ireland, England, or Wales. If the above video didn’t give it away, I’m rooting hard for Ireland!
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