Wendell Berry

More from Wendell Berry

• We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. … We have been wrong.

  The Long-Legged House (1969), “A Native Hill”

  • Nature

• Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

  The Long-Legged House (1969)

  • War & Peace

• Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  Part of an endorsement statement for The Dying of the Trees (1997) by Charles E. Little

  • Nature
  • Politics

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy