Gardening Quotes by Wendell Berry

Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.

— Wendell Berry

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.

— Wendell Berry

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

— Wendell Berry

Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

— Wendell Berry

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will…

— Wendell Berry

If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over;…

— Wendell Berry

“A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "solutions," this one "solves" a single problem…

— Wendell Berry

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the…

— Wendell Berry

The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the…

— Wendell Berry

One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the…

— Wendell Berry

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will…

— Wendell Berry

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the…

— 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

Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the…

— Wendell Berry

“The theme of his life’s work was his effort to bridge this gap. The way to do it was simply to refuse…

— Wendell Berry