“This is the justice that we are learning from the ecologists: you cannot damage what you are dependent upon without damaging yourself.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the… — 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
