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
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I’ve come down from the sky like some damned ghost, delayed too long…To the abandoned fields the trees returned and grew. They… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social weapon in the hands of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The forsaking of all others is a keeping of faith, not just with the chosen one, but with the ones forsaken. The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting with farmers. There is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often… — 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
