Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it… — 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,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“the inlet our friend looks as he did when we first knew him, and until I wake I believe I will die… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given… — 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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time.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
“The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Back there in the beginning, as I see now, my life was all time and almost no memory. Though I knew early… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But is work something we have a right to escape? And can we escape it with impunity? We are probably the first… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I whisper over to myself the way of loss, the names of the dead. One by one, we lose our loved ones,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The most exemplary nature is that of the topsoil. It is very Christ-like in its passivity and beneficence, and in the penetrating… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It is not a terrible thing to love the world, knowing that the world is always passing and irrecoverable, to be known… — wendell berry Copy Share Image
“...this country would always be populated with presences and absences, presences of absences, the living and the dead. The world as it… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that… — 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share
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
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
![“[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair arm, his right scratching his head, his white hair gleaming in the lamplight. I knew that when he was studying he was thinking, but I did not know what about. Now I have aged…” quote by Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b6/wendell-berry-236_civil-war_my-grandfather-returned-to-what-he-calle_1877401.jpg)
![“[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis…” quote by Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c1/wendell-berry-236_america_all-the-ancient-wisdom-tells-us-that-wor_1212112.jpg)
