Wendell Berry Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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Wendell Berry quotes and sayings page 4 (poet). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 42 we have.

“When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.”
“If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.”
Wendell Berry Quotes
“The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.”
Wendell Berry Quotes
“The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.”
Wendell Berry Quotes
“The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.”
Wendell Berry Quotes
“Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.”
Wendell Berry Quotes
“To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.”
Wendell Berry Quotes
“The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.”
Wendell Berry Quotes
“If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.”
Wendell Berry Quotes
“Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.”

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