A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To the extent that we consume, in our present circumstances, we are guilty. To the extent that we guilty consumers are conservationists,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Too many land users and too many conservationists seem to have accepted the doctrine that the availability of goods is determined by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
