Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we… — 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,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the… — 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
“My vision of the gathered church that had come to me... had been replaced by a vision of the gathered community. What… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I thought that some of the hymns bespoke the true religion of the place. The people didn't really want to be saints… — 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
I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created… — 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
Go with your love to the fields. Lie down in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“God loves Port William as it is... Why else should He want it to be better than it is? All my life… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind.… — 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,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other… — 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
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
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
