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
“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
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
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
“As the connections have been broken by the fragmentation and isolation of work, they can be restored by restoring the wholeness of… — 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
“A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important… — 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
“The life of membership with all its cumbers is traded away for the life of employment that makes itself free by forgetting… — 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
“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
“To both the racist and the puritan, childhood is not a time of life that we grow out of, as the life… — 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
There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Soon the majority of the world’s people will be living in cities. We are now obliged to think of so many people… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does… — 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
“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
“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
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
And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray… — 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
