Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Go with your love to the fields. Lie down in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what… — 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
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
The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies… — 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
