Inspirational Quotes by Wendell Berry

Why I am NOT going to buy a computer

— Wendell Berry

If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.

— Wendell Berry

For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

— Wendell Berry

What I stand for is what I stand on.

— Wendell Berry

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

— Wendell Berry

The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed

— Wendell Berry

It's the impeded stream that sings

— Wendell Berry

If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.

— Wendell Berry

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

— Wendell Berry

The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.

— Wendell Berry

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

— Wendell Berry

The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing…

— Wendell Berry

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something…

— Wendell Berry

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

— Wendell Berry

There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

— Wendell Berry

We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

— Wendell Berry

If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have…

— Wendell Berry

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a…

— Wendell Berry

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when…

— Wendell Berry

We live the given life, and not the planned.

— Wendell Berry

A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.

— Wendell Berry

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

— Wendell Berry

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.

— Wendell Berry

Give your approval to all you cannot understand.

— Wendell Berry

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.

— Wendell Berry

Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don’t buy anything new.

— Wendell Berry

It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.

— Wendell Berry

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not…

— Wendell Berry

You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction

— Wendell Berry

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.

— Wendell Berry

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

— Wendell Berry

We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.

— Wendell Berry

All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

— Wendell Berry

The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.

— Wendell Berry

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.

— Wendell Berry

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

— Wendell Berry