Wendell Berry Quotes on Culture
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We haven't accepted - we can't really believe - that the most characteristic product of our age of scientific miracles is junk, but that is so. And we still think and behave as though we face an unspoiled continent, with thousands of acres of living space for every man. We still sing 'America the Beautiful' as though we had not created in it, by strenuous effort, at great expense, and with dauntless self-praise, an unprecedented ugliness.
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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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.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.'
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In Human culture lies the preservation of wildness.