What are People For? Quotes

“Eating is an agricultural act.”
― Wendell Berry, What Are People for Essays By Wendell B

“I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.”
― Wendell Berry, What are People For?

“The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.”
― Wendell Berry, What are People For?

“No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.”
― Wendell Berry, What are People For?

“Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.”
― Wendell Berry, What are People For?

“One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.”
― Wendell Berry, What are People For?

“The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.”
― Wendell Berry, What are People For?