Food Quotes by Wendell Berry

“And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.”

— Wendell Berry

Eating is an agricultural act.

— Wendell Berry

The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.

— Wendell Berry

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

— Wendell Berry

We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.

— Wendell Berry

People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.

— Wendell Berry

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

— Wendell Berry

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays…

— Wendell Berry

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food…

— Wendell Berry

They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they…

— Wendell Berry

Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we…

— Wendell Berry

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been…

— Wendell Berry

Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.

— Wendell Berry

The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance,…

— Wendell Berry

The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which…

— Wendell Berry

Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters,…

— Wendell Berry

It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much…

— Wendell Berry

“The food industrialists have by now persuaded millions of consumers to prefer food that is already prepared. They will grow, deliver, and…

— Wendell Berry

Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run…

— Wendell Berry

The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want…

— Wendell Berry

The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded,…

— Wendell Berry

“When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to…

— Wendell Berry

“The “food system,” according to Professor Shaw, now uses 16.5 percent of all energy used in the United States. This 16.5 percent…

— Wendell Berry

“To think of food as a weapon, or of a weapon as food, may give an illusory security and wealth to a…

— Wendell Berry

“The consumer, that is to say, must be kept from discovering that, in the food industry—as in any other industry—the overriding concerns…

— Wendell Berry

“Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is.…

— Wendell Berry

“To eat responsibly is to understand and enact, so far as one can, this complex relationship. What can one do? Here is…

— Wendell Berry

The people who benefit from this state of affairs have been at pains to convince us that the agricultural practices and policies…

— Wendell Berry

“The industrial eater is, in fact, one who does not know that eating is an agricultural act, who no longer knows or…

— Wendell Berry

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently,…

— Wendell Berry

Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of…

— Wendell Berry

“All the episodes from my stories and novels are not about food only, but about meals. You can eat food by yourself.…

— Wendell Berry