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Wendell Berry — Portrait after a picture by Guy Mendes (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons. This drawing is shared under the same licence.

The quotations of

Wendell Berry

American writer, activist, and poet from Kentucky

1934–2026

16 quotes, most often on Nature, Politics and War & Peace.

We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers?
“Compromise, Hell!” Orion magazine (November/December 2004)
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