“I don’t hesitate to say that damage or destruction of the land-community is morally wrong, just as Leopold did not hesitate to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue must lead to harmony between one… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“One morning when he was about thirteen, Den and I were in the barn doing the before-breakfast chores. I was in the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It is impossible not to notice how little the proponents of the ideal of competition have to say about honesty, which is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“What is called the morality of a society is no more than a consequence of the morality of individuals. There is, by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We are dealing, then, with an absurdity that is not a quirk or an accident, but is fundamental to our character as… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 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 they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
