Wendell Berry Quotes

The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.

Wendell Berry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 5, 1934

Topics

GoodLiveWaterEarthWithoutGifts

I'm not exactly the zeitgeist queen.

Jincy Willett

QueenZeitgeistExactly

Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it's like your gold mine when you start writing.

Jim Harrison

LifeTimeMindIdeasGoldStart

Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract and so modern about a bank making a technical mistake about how it funded its obligations to depositors, and suddenly you're out of work.

John Lanchester

WorkMistakeYouBadAcceptOut

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

Robert Kiyosaki

TrustTeamLessonSometimesHardest

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

Sidney Hillman

BelieveWillParticipationMore

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Simon Schama

DanceI AmInevitableNeverOldUp

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

Simon Wiesenthal

ImportantJustCriminalsCatching

In Broadway, we do love jazz hands.

Rosie Perez

LoveHandsJazzBroadway

Two hurt people can not help each other. They can not.

Mary J. Blige

PeopleHurtHelpTwoOtherEach

You've read the Torah, right? So you know the Torah defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.

Josh Mandel

MarriageWomanManYouKnowRight

I just make my music. It's not too complicated.

Jorja Smith

MusicComplicatedMakeJustToo

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

Christian Lacroix

BestDesignFurnitureSayThey Say

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