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
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and for each other. It is either that or continue merely to… — 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
To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of… — 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
“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relationship' involving (ideally) two successful… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In this state of total consumerism-which is to say a state of helpless dependence on things and services and ideas and motives… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,… — 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
