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Portraits: John Berger on Artists

by John Berger

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Feb 21, 2018 01:54PM

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“This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: beauty, creation, nature, world

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“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”
― Wendell Berry, Given

tags: desecrated, sacred

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“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

tags: community, creation, healing, health, life, loneliness

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“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.”
― Wendell Berry

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“But a man with a machine and inadequate culture—such as I was when I made my pond—is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.”
― Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

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