In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The "developed" nations had given to the "free market" the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The people who benefit from this state of affairs have been at pains to convince us that the agricultural practices and policies… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the entire Kentucky River system, which the central part of the state complacently depends upon for its… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Obviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter and comforter of profitable inquiries, then Christians, regardless of their… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But in its de facto alliance with Caesar, Christianity connives directly in the murder of Creation. For in these days, Caesar is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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
It is better to buy from a small, privately owned local store than from a chain store. It is better to buy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because… — 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
We are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of… — 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
