Wendell Berry, The Art Of The Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays Quotes
The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.
...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.
Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine")
The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)
