No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“And I told him that a man's life is always dealing with permanence - that the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is… — 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
“I now suspect that if we work with machines the world will seem to us to be a machine, but if we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when… — 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
“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
“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
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
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
However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem… — 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
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
“The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon… — 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
I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed… — 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
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
The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives… — 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
“…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
“I never again would be able to put my life in a box and carry it away.” — 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
