Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But I would have a darkness in my mind like the dark the dead calf makes for a time on the grass… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“To Know the Dark" To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out… — 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
