The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often… — 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
You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying,… — 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 real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It is not a terrible thing to love the world, knowing that the world is always passing and irrecoverable, to be known… — wendell berry Copy Share Image
To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the… — 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
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
History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every… — 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
Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice.… — 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
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
“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
“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
“But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time. It does not accept that limit. Of all that we feel and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“What can turn us from this deserted future, back into the sphere of our being, the great dance that joins us to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my… — 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
“Sabbaths, 1982—IV (“A gardener rises out of the ground”) Thrush song, stream song, holy love That flows through earthly forms and folds,… — 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
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
