The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Why must the gate be narrow? Because you cannot pass beyond it burdened. To come into the woods you must leave behind… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In the preacher's words the Heavenly City has risen up, surmounting their lives, the house, the town -- the final hope, in… — 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
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Through my history's despite and ruin, I have come to its remainder, and here have made the beginning of a farm intended… — 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
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