If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To the extent that we consume, in our present circumstances, we are guilty. To the extent that we guilty consumers are conservationists,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Too many land users and too many conservationists seem to have accepted the doctrine that the availability of goods is determined by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. — 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
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
