Wendell Berry

“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books…

— Wendell Berry

“No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and…

— Wendell Berry

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our…

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I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of…

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“All I needed was to be alone and quiet and in the dark, so that my mind could concentrate itself of fearful…

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“There should be no relenting in our efforts to influence politics and politicians. But in the name of honesty and sanity we…

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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what…

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There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as…

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THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware,…

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“The theme of his life’s work was his effort to bridge this gap. The way to do it was simply to refuse…

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... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family…

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I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given…

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There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've…

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“The earth, which we all have in common, is our deepest bond, and our behavior toward it cannot help but be an…

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“At start of spring I open a trench In the ground. I put into it The winter’s accumulation of paper, Pages I…

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“One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have us believe that we can…

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“...this country would always be populated with presences and absences, presences of absences, the living and the dead. The world as it…

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Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of…

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So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you…

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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,…

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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off…

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Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make,…

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Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all…

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“What is called the morality of a society is no more than a consequence of the morality of individuals. There is, by…

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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it.…

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The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance,…

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“As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign…

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It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when…

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If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over;…

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I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t…

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“In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus…

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Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood…

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“...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what…

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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung…

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“Education has increasingly been reduced to job training, preparing young people not for responsible adulthood and citizenship but for expert servitude to…

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As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from…

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“When people learn to preserve the richness of the land that God has given them and the rights to enjoy the fruits…

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“A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "solutions," this one "solves" a single problem…

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We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy…

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When despair for the world grows in me... I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the…

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