Quote by Wendell Berry
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits. – Wendell Berry

Other quotes by Wendell Berry

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

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Hope
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. – Wendell Berry

Category:
Nature
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. – Wendell Berry

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positive
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Other Quotes from
Death
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Well, theres a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Death

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. – Rosalind Russell

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Death

If we dont know life, how can we know death? – Confucius

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Death

Each instant of life is a step toward death. – Pierre Corneille

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Death

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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. – Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab

Category:
Moderation

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

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Honesty

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that its not jokes that are funny, its characters that are funny. And isnt that true! Thats why I always kill jokes. Im terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I cant get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon. – David Mitchell

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funny

Style is the image of character. – Edward Gibbon

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Style