wendell for wednesday

“If we are serious about these big problems, we have got to see that the solutions begin and end with ourselves…If we want to stop the impoverishment of land and people, we ourselves must be prepared to become poorer…our success, if it happens, will change our world and our lives more radically than we can now imagine. Without that realization we cannot hope to succeed. To succeed we will have to give up the mechanical ways of thought that have dominated the world increasingly for the last two hundred years, and we must begin now to make that change in ourselves.”

Wendell Berry, from Our Only World