Wendell Berry Quotes About Mountain

• Desde el punto de vista humano, la diferencia entre la mente de un ser humano y la de una cabra montés es maravillosa; desde el punto de vista de la ignorancia infinita que nos rodea, la diferencia no es impresionante. De hecho, desde ese punto de vista, la cabra puede tener una mente mejor, ya que está más adaptada a su lugar y no pondría en peligro su especie o su planeta por una idea.

  Wendell Berry

  Naturaleza, Ignorancia, Animal

• The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers in order to receive a clean and abundant supply of water from reservoirs in the mountains. A much likelier outcome is that they will be drinking an ever stronger mixture of sewage and mine acid and mud and cropspray and various other defecations of the industrial paradise.

  Wendell Berry

  Drinking, Silly, Army

• In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.

  Wendell Berry

  Kentucky, Order, Ifs And

  "Taking Care of What We’ve Been Given". Interview with Thomas P. Healy, www.counterpunch.org. April 15, 2006.

• We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children.

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Ocean, Lakes

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.188, Counterpoint Press

• La línea que une el bombardeo de poblaciones civiles con la montaña removida por la minería a cielo abierto... con el prisionero torturado parece discurrir bastante recta. Vivimos, al parecer, en la culminación de una larga guerra, una guerra contra los seres humanos, otras criaturas y la propia Tierra.

  Wendell Berry

  Correr, Largo, Montaña

  Discurso de graduación de Wendell Berry en el Lindsey Wilson College de Columbia, Kentucky, 14 de mayo de 2005.

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