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
“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
My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt. — 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
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
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — 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
“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
“This view of farming has been dominant now for a generation, and so it is not too soon to ask: How well… — 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
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
“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
“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
An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating — 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
![“I should understand the land, not as a commodity, an inert fact to be taken for granted, but as an ultimate value, enduring and alive, useful and beautiful and mysterious and formidable and comforting, beneficent and terribly demanding, worthy of the best of man's attention and care... [My father]…” quote by Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f2a/wendell-berry-236_farming_i-should-understand-the-land-not-as-a-co_1025740.jpg)
