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Quote by Wendell Berry

“Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.”

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Wendell Berry, an American novelist born on August 5, 1934, is renowned for his profound descriptions of rural life and his critical views on modern industrial civilization. more

“There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.”

Ifs Want Helping Growth Religious Principles Economy Economic Limits Assets Farms Limitless Thyself Neighbour

Author:Wendell Berry

“The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.”

People Hands Moving Wealth Technology Products Cost Lows Machines Aim Sells Productions Fewer Industrialization

Author:Wendell Berry

“People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.”

People Ifs Jobs Economy Creation Machines Aim Job Creation

Author:Wendell Berry

“Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.”

Ifs Want Happens Wonder Unexpected Schedules Hanging Around

Author:Wendell Berry

“The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.”

Principles Genius Fit Farms Agriculture Farming Ecological

Author:Wendell Berry

“That's generally true of people who drop bombs from high altitudes. You don't know what's going on below. You don't see the human consequences of what you're doing.”

People Knows Humans Consequence Bombs

Author:Howard Zinn

“I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.”

Trying Heart Home Car Ready Huge My Heart Guitar Tennessee

Author:Lucy Hale

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