People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often… — 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
Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have… — 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… — 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
“In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity… — 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
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The "developed" nations had given to the "free market" the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials, and other people we are… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I thought that some of the hymns bespoke the true religion of the place. The people didn't really want to be saints… — wendell berry Copy Share Image
If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“What happens under the rule of specialization is that, though society becomes more and more intricate, it has less and less structure.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Finally Bill Mixter would lower his head, lay his bow upon the strings, and draw out the first notes of a tune,… — wendell berry Copy Share Image
If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“My vision of the gathered church that had come to me... had been replaced by a vision of the gathered community. What… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity… — 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
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Our present idea of freedom is only the freedom to do as we please: to sell ourselves for a high salary, a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical 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
