There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias. — 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
The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly. — 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
The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory. — 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
