We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The food industrialists have by now persuaded millions of consumers to prefer food that is already prepared. They will grow, deliver, and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“All the episodes from my stories and novels are not about food only, but about meals. You can eat food by yourself.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The “food system,” according to Professor Shaw, now uses 16.5 percent of all energy used in the United States. This 16.5 percent… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“To eat responsibly is to understand and enact, so far as one can, this complex relationship. What can one do? Here is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The consumer, that is to say, must be kept from discovering that, in the food industry—as in any other industry—the overriding concerns… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“To think of food as a weapon, or of a weapon as food, may give an illusory security and wealth to a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The industrial eater is, in fact, one who does not know that eating is an agricultural act, who no longer knows or… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The people who benefit from this state of affairs have been at pains to convince us that the agricultural practices and policies… — 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
