“I never again would be able to put my life in a box and carry it away.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“He had nothing he could do with is life's work now except leave it to a man who thought nothing of it.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“And having returned from the woods, we remember with regret its restfulness. For all creatures there are in place, hence at rest.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“One of the attractions of moving away into te life of employment, I think, is being disconnected and free, unbothered by membership.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. ... We have been… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That we live now in an economy that is not sustainable is not the fault only of a few mongers of power… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Back there in the beginning, as I see now, my life was all time and almost no memory. Though I knew early… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“And yet love obstinately answers that no loved one is standardized. A body, love insists, is neither a spirit nor a machine;… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I could not have desired her enough. She was a living soul and could be loved forever. Like every living creature, she… — 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… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Late in the night I pay the unrest I own to the life that has never lived and cannot live now. What… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“…For many years now, that way of living has been scorned, and over the last 40 or 50 years it has nearly… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Over a long time, the coming and passing of several generations, the old farm had settled into its patterns and cycles of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“What happens under the rule of specialization is that, though society becomes more and more intricate, it has less and less structure.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“You think you will never forget any of this, you will remember it always just the way it was. But you can't… — 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… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“To eat responsibly is to understand and enact, so far as one can, this complex relationship. What can one do? Here is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself. — 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
