I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.
Wendell BerryThe cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
Wendell BerryThe road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.
Wendell BerryStichwörter: road word concrete
...And we pray, not for new
earth or heaven, but to be quiet
in heart, and in eye clear.
What we need is here.
Stichwörter: inspirational
To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
Wendell BerryBeauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.
Wendell BerryWe have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.
Wendell BerryStichwörter: world nature environmentalism preservation
...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
Wendell BerryYou have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a time.'
And how long is that going to take?'
I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.'
That could be a long time.'
I will tell you a further mystery,' he said. 'It may take longer.
After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.
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