“There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The word health belongs to a family of words, a listing of which will suggest how far the consideration of health must… — 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
... 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
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 most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government,… — 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… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It is easy enough to see why women came to object to the role of Blondie, a mostly decorative custodian of a… — 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
“In modern marriage, then, what was once a difference of work became a division of work. And in this division the household… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“This determination that nurturing should become exclusively a concern of women served to signify to both sexes that neither nurture nor womanhood… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The family farm is failing because the pattern it belongs to is failing, and the principal reason for this failure is the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relationship' involving (ideally) two successful… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the… — 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
