The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The "developed" nations had given to the "free market" the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will… — 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
The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying… — 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
