Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“A music attends the things of the earth. To sense that music is to be near the possibility of health and joy.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The word health belongs to a family of words, a listing of which will suggest how far the consideration of health must… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“To be creative is only to have health: to keep oneself fully alive in the Creation, to keep the Creation fully alive… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Physical health doesn't exist apart from the health of other things. Health ultimately involves the community, and the community ultimately involves the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in… — 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
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
“It has become increasingly clear that the way we farm affects the local community, and that the economy of the local community… — 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