The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.
Wendell BerryIn Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.
Wendell BerryTo defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
Wendell BerryA good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.
Wendell BerryI think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. "Buy a car," it says, "and be free. Buy a boat and be free." Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?
Wendell Berry