“The world doesn't stop because you are in love or in mourning or in need of time to think. And so when… — 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
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
“...we begin to understand marriage as the insistently practical union that it is. We begin to understand it, that is, as it… — 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
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
If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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
Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good… — 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
“From my college courses and my reading I knew the various names that came at the end of a line of questions… — 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 Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory. — 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
“I could not have desired her enough. She was a living soul and could be loved forever. Like every living creature, she… — 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
