Knows Quotes by Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.

— 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

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

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe…

— Wendell Berry

If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as…

— Wendell Berry

The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to…

— Wendell Berry

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,…

— Wendell Berry

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good…

— Wendell Berry

Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty…

— Wendell Berry

I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers /…

— Wendell Berry

We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized…

— Wendell Berry

It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much…

— Wendell Berry

People are always talking about the first church. The real first church was that gaggle of people who followed Jesus around. We…

— Wendell Berry

There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization,…

— Wendell Berry

We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have…

— Wendell Berry

It is a fact that the entire Kentucky River system, which the central part of the state complacently depends upon for its…

— Wendell Berry

We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and for each other. It is either that or continue merely to…

— Wendell Berry

I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed…

— Wendell Berry

We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be…

— Wendell Berry

I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of…

— Wendell Berry

This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale…

— Wendell Berry

The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be…

— Wendell Berry

WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it…

— Wendell Berry

The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but…

— Wendell Berry

Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and…

— Wendell Berry

We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal "peace treaties." We seem not to have thought…

— Wendell Berry

If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean…

— Wendell Berry