To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
Wendell BerryA viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
Wendell BerryThe only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
Wendell BerryTo me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money, is not acceptable because it is not realistic. I am thinking as I believe we must think if we wish to discuss the best uses of people, places, and things, and if we wish to give affection some standing in our thoughts.
Wendell Berry