Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. Wendell Berry” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“...Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed... ” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful;… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance - almost is the revelation of ignorance. Our knowledge of the world… — 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
