That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.'"… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance,… — 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… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land. — 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
