Quotes by Community One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable. Wendell Pierce communitycountrypeople The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable. Wendell Pierce communityteamsports What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go. Wendell Pierce communitygoneart I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership) Wendell Berry membershipcommunitybelieve People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities. Wendell Berry communitypeopleneeds I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat. Wendy Davis communityrunningearning History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings. Wendell Berry regretcommunityforever The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. Wendell Berry affluencecommunity When school district officials literally laughed at the notion that the Me Generation — this was the label for my generation — would jump at the chance to teach in urban and rural communities, their concerns, too, went unheard. My very greatest asset was that I simply did not understand what was impossible. Wendy Kopp generationscommunityschool I don't see a direct conflict between the rights of individuals and the rights of communities, because I don't perceive of communities as having rights in a way that individuals do. Communities certainly have interests, but they don't exactly have rights. Wendy Kaminer individualconflictcommunity Physical health doesn't exist apart from the health of other things. Health ultimately involves the community, and the community ultimately involves the place and natural life of that place, so that real health is harmony with the world. Wendell Berry communityrealworld ... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world. Wendell Berry environmentalcommunitydrinking A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support. Wentworth Miller luxurysupportcommunity You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying. Wendell Berry progresscommunitymen We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work. Wendell Berry environmentalecosystemscommunity Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured. Werner Herzog environmentalclimatecommunity A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common. Wendell Berry environmentalcommunitycommon The "developed" nations had given to the "free market" the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands, and communities, their forests, wetlands, and prairies, their ecosystems and watersheds. They had accepted universal pollution and global warming as normal costs of doing business. Wendell Berry ecosystemssacrificecommunity The ability to see yourself as a temporary expression of intention and to see yourself in all of humanity is a characteristic of the holy relationship. It's the ability to celebrate and honor in all others, the place where we're all one. ...establish a holy relationship with your Source, the world community, your neighbors, acquaintances, family, the animal kingdom, our planet, and yourself. Wayne Dyer communityexpressionanimal and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else. Wendell Berry communitysomewhere-elsepeople«182183184185186187188189190191192»
