Quotes by Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

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People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must com — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, r — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in whic — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to d — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Econ — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus fin — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great n — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy communi — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the enviro — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
At this point, I want to say point-blank what I hope is already clear: though agrarianism proposes that everybody has ag — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays