Quote #12

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

More from Wendell Berry

  1. 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.
  2. The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
  3. An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
  4. We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
  5. We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
  6. A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go o…
  7. 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…
  8. We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

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