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
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least… — 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
“To Know the Dark" To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“He could see. And he walked along, feeling the joy of a man who sees, a joy that a man tends to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When despair for the world grows in me... I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the… — 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
