It is a fact that the entire Kentucky River system, which the central part of the state complacently depends upon for its… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism! — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is better to buy from a small, privately owned local store than from a chain store. It is better to buy… — 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
Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying… — 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 took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a… — 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
