Quote: Diseased and healthy communities (Berry)
March 28th, 2006 | Published in Agrarianism, Economics, Quotes
A diseased community will be suffering natural losses that become, in turn, human losses. A healthy community is sustainable; it is, within reasonable limits, self-sufficient and, within reasonable limits, self-determined—that is, free of tyranny.
—Wendell Berry, “Conservation and Local Economy,” in The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry (2002), p. 203