There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.


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Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of mil...
WENDELL BERRY
Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant wo...
WENDELL BERRY
say that your main crop is the forest.
WENDELL BERRY
If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously i...
WENDELL BERRY
My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we s...
WENDELL BERRY
In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...
WENDELL BERRY
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may...
WENDELL BERRY
The world is whole beyond human knowing.
WENDELL BERRY
History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have bee...
WENDELL BERRY
As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic,...
WENDELL BERRY
The most prepared are the most dedicated.
RAYMOND BERRY
Peaceableness toward enemies is an idea that will, of course, continue to be denounced as impractica...
WENDELL BERRY
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
WENDELL BERRY
Under the rule of the free market ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis wit...
WENDELL BERRY
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of surviv...
WENDELL BERRY
The change of mind I am talking about involves not just a change of knowledge, but also a change of ...
WENDELL BERRY
I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our pr...
WENDELL BERRY
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybo...
DAVE BERRY
A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
JOHN BERRY
The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.
JOHN BERRY
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
WENDELL BERRY
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of hum...
WENDELL BERRY
We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
WENDELL BERRY
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate ...
WENDELL BERRY
Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice.
MARY BERRY
A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
WENDELL BERRY
If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about...
CHUCK BERRY
Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was...
BERRY GORDY
When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent ...
STEVE BERRY
It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew...
CHUCK BERRY
I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.
MARY BERRY
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a t...
WENDELL BERRY
A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic,...
STEVE BERRY
We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good ca...
WENDELL BERRY
Some of my fondest memories are holidays by the seaside.
MARY BERRY
I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented...
BERRY GORDY
Don't let the same dog bite you twice.
CHUCK BERRY
Everything is a blessing, even meetings. Whether it's meetings or running gassers or lifting, it...
ERIC BERRY
I'm thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up.
CHUCK BERRY
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, g...
WENDELL BERRY
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
WENDELL BERRY
That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened...
CHUCK BERRY
Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews.
CHUCK BERRY
Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. ...
CHUCK BERRY
I want to see how far I can go and how good I can be, whether it's in the classroom or on the fo...
ERIC BERRY
I admire my fellow judge Paul Hollywood enormously, though we often argue. He believes presentation ...
MARY BERRY
I don't like showing cleavage because I get cold, and if I had fantastic legs, I might wear shor...
MARY BERRY
What I stand for is what I stand on.
WENDELL BERRY