Meandering about . . .

Today is the birthday of Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934), academic, author and farmer.

"Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is." - Wendell Berry

"We have lived 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." - Wendell Berry

"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." - Wendell Berry


"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival." - Wendell Berry

"We cannot comprehend what comprehends us." - Wendell Berry

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