The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most… — 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 is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies… — 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
Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When despair for the world grows in me... I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Physical health doesn't exist apart from the health of other things. Health ultimately involves the community, and the community ultimately involves the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed… — 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
There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Obviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter and comforter of profitable inquiries, then Christians, regardless of their… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected… — 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
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
But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly… — 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
