Wendell Berry Citations
Wendell Berry: Citations en anglais
Standing by Words: Essays (2011), Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms (1982)
Contexte: It may be, then, that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Citizenship Papers (2003), The Total Economy
Contexte: A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. Unlike a person, a corporation does not age. It does not arrive, as most persons finally do, at a realization of the shortness and smallness of human lives; it does not come to see the future as the lifetime of the children and grandchildren of anybody in particular.
Source: What Are People For?
“What I stand for
is what I stand on.”
"Below" in A Part (1980).
Poems
Citizenship Papers (2003), The Failure of War
Contexte: Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call “the economy” or “the free market” is less and less distinguishable from warfare. For about half of the last century, we worried about world conquest by international communism. Now with less worry (so far) we are witnessing world conquest by international capitalism. Though its political means are milder (so far) than those of communism, this newly internationalized capitalism may prove even more destructive of human cultures and communities, of freedom, and of nature. Its tendency is just as much toward total dominance and control.
“Eating is an agricultural act.”
"The Pleasures of Eating" http://www.stjoan.com/ecosp/docs/pleasures_of_eating_by_wendell_b.htm <br class="br">What Are People For? (1990) <br class="br">Source: What Are People for Essays By Wendell B
Variante: The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Source: What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
Source: The Collected Poems, 1957-1982
“The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
