Quotes about Wendell Berry

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.

As Walter Shewring rightly said, both "the plowman and the potter have a cosmic function." And bad art in any trade dishonors and damages Creation.

The folly at the root of this foolish economy began with the idea that a corporation should be regarded, legally, as a person.

The singular demand for production has been unable to acknowledge the importance of the sources of production in nature and in human culture.

Categorical hatred is the hatred of the mob, which makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob overflowing with righteousness, as at the crucifixion, and before, and since.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.