The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The trouble was the familiar one: too much power, too little knowledge.” — 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
If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“A lifetime's knowledge shimmers on the face of the land in the mind of a person who knows. The history of a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“This much is clear to me: insofar as I am capable of feeling such pleasures as I believe Nick felt, I am… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Without a complex knowledge of one's place and without the faithfulness to one's place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable… — 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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