Industrial medicine is as little interested in ecological health as is industrial agriculture. (Health Is Membership, pg. 98)
– Wendell Berry
Related Quotes:
- We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions. The key to predict future aquatic ecosystem changes. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- the medicine wheel is inside of you it not in a pile of stones the medicine wheel is inside the heart and body – Medicine Turtle
- The secret to good health is to behave like your ancestors did before the Industrial Revolution. – Steven Magee
- The secret to good health is to behave like your ancestors did before the Industrial Revolution. – Steven Magee
- He who doesn’t regard agriculture will truly value it when food becomes scarce! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone. – Wendell Berry
- The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling. – Wendell Berry
- The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. – Wendell Berry
- Eating is an agricultural act. – Wendell Berry
- Thinking is the most overrated human activity. – Wendell Berry
- The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. – Wendell Berry
- The significance – and ultimately the quality – of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in which we are taking part. – Wendell Berry
- There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love. – Wendell Berry
- People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us. – Wendell Berry
- He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat. – Wendell Berry
- She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry. – Wendell Berry
- Novelty is a new kind of loneliness. – Wendell Berry
- Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world. – Wendell Berry
- Oh Lord, make us ableTo eat all that’s on this table,And if there’s some we haven’t gotBring it to us while it’s hot – Wendell Berry
- And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable. – Wendell Berry
- And his words fell upon the table like a blessing. – Wendell Berry
- The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character. – Wendell Berry
- There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot. – Wendell Berry
- …a book, a real book, language incarnate, becomes a part of one’s bodily life. – Wendell Berry
- Respect, I think, always implies imagination – the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. – Wendell Berry
- The Earth is what we all have in common. – Wendell Berry
- Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me. – Wendell Berry
- You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness. – Amit Kalantri
- I don’t mind functional medicine. I suppose it has to be better than dysfunctional medicine. – Nancy S Mure
- Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates
- I don’t mind the term functional medicine — I suppose it’s better than dysfunctional medicine. – Nancy S Mure
- Law and order are the medicine of the politic body and when the politic body gets sick, medicine must be administered. – BR Ambedkar
- We can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- There is no membership required for shining the light. – Raphael Zernoff
- caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack. – Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Public acceptance will never replace self-love. Nor will group membership add, create, or dictate your value. – Tiffany L Jackson
- Club Hate’ does not admit fine people to it’s membership. – TF Hodge
- This club is for members only. But once you join, membership lasts for an eternity. – Ellen Schreiber
- In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth. – Kalle Lasn
- God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah