The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over;… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh.… — 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
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
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact… — 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
