How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful;… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice… — 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
There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit… — 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
We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal "peace treaties." We seem not to have thought… — 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
