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He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.

He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.
– Wendell Berry

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  1. 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
  2. You want Change, today we’ll show you Change!Here’s your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat! – NoViolet Bulawayo
  3. 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
  4. The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling. – Wendell Berry
  5. The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. – Wendell Berry
  6. Eating is an agricultural act. – Wendell Berry
  7. Thinking is the most overrated human activity. – Wendell Berry
  8. The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. – Wendell Berry
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us. – Wendell Berry
  12. She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry. – Wendell Berry
  13. Novelty is a new kind of loneliness. – Wendell Berry
  14. Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world. – Wendell Berry
  15. And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable. – Wendell Berry
  16. And his words fell upon the table like a blessing. – Wendell Berry
  17. The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character. – Wendell Berry
  18. There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot. – Wendell Berry
  19. Industrial medicine is as little interested in ecological health as is industrial agriculture. (Health Is Membership, pg. 98) – Wendell Berry
  20. …a book, a real book, language incarnate, becomes a part of one’s bodily life. – Wendell Berry
  21. Respect, I think, always implies imagination – the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. – Wendell Berry
  22. The Earth is what we all have in common. – Wendell Berry
  23. Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me. – Wendell Berry
  24. Show them how to fly and they will shine upon the clear blue skies, show them where to fly and they will fly upon the skies – Filios Sazeides
  25. We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it. – Shirley Jackson
  26. Everyone wants to talk-talk-talk. Can’t we eat-eat-eat, and then talk? – Sarah J Maas
  27. The difference between human and other species is, they eat each other when they have nothing to eat, but we eat each other while having everything. – MF Moonzajer
  28. Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice. – Mary Berry
  29. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. – Margaret Mead
  30. To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
  31. …having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat… – MFK Fisher
  32. Give me meaning, give me soul. Give my rapture, wild, a heart that is raw. Give me a mind that thinks for itself and imagines freely. – Atalina Wright
  33. Whatever man imagines is possible – Julie Andrews Edwards
  34. Men… No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy. – Janet Fitch
  35. Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines. – Po Bronson
  36. Probably every lover imagines that his own love is pure, and that others love like beasts. – James J Wilhelm
  37. A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection. – Janny Wurts
  38. The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  39. The spirit of imagination smells exactly how the person inhaling it imagines it to smell. – SA Tawks
  40. It is the very people who no one imagines anything of, who do the things that no one can imagine – Imitation Game

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