Wendell Berry Quotes

Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.

If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.

The Supreme Court decision [Texas v. Johnson, 1989] does not in any way indicate the government is backing off from forcing the flag on people. They just don't want to look too dictatorial in the way they do it.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

Burning the American flag should be punishable by loss of citizenship.

The transformation of forests into deserts, fertile earth into sunbaked concrete, and running rivers into silted floodwaters show that only through care for the environment can the livelihoods of those most dependent on it be sustained. We cannot allow economic and environmental concerns to be played off against each other.

We should stop calling ourselves environmentalists - and just call ourselves patriots.

President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it.

God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.

If you're trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers and oceans, you're not much of a patriot.

Doing what's best for our kids means restoring balance, commonsense and conservation to the management of our natural resources.

These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.

We see that the environment is something to exploit, because we see the environment in terms of minerals for example, or forests, or even raw materials that we produce on our land, or even land itself. We see it in terms of what we can exploit rather than the medium in which all of these activities have to take place.

I think we ought to quit sending [help] to countries that burn our flag.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Without this great land of ours, we would all drown.

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.

To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.