I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
People are always talking about the first church. The real first church was that gaggle of people who followed Jesus around. We… — 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
