The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — 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
“Over a long time, the coming and passing of several generations, the old farm had settled into its patterns and cycles of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I should understand the land, not as a commodity, an inert fact to be taken for granted, but as an ultimate value,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“As Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“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 ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.'"… — 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
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
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the… — 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… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Through my history's despite and ruin, I have come to its remainder, and here have made the beginning of a farm intended… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating — 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
