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
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
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
My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given… — 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
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
“I am wholly willing to be here, Between the bright silent thousands of stars And the life of the grass pouring out… — 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
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
“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
We are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of… — 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
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
“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
“He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and… — 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
“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“You have consented to time and it is winter. The country seems bigger, for you can see through the bare trees. There… — 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
“…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 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
“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
No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations,… — 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
