Quote #10

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

More from Wendell Berry

  1. We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
  2. But a man with a machine and inadequate culture--such as I was when I made my pond--is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
  3. Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to…
  4. Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
  5. Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
  6. The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
  7. 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 tha…
  8. We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

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