It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it… — 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
Without a complex knowledge of one's place and without the faithfulness to one's place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The issue here really is not whether international trade shall be free but whether or not it makes any sense for a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings… — 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
