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title: "33 May Quotes By Wendell Berry"
description: "33 May quotes by Wendell Berry. Plus more from Wendell Berry and more May sayings from other authors."
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> [We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/we-re-all-complicit-in-the-things-we-may-be-trying-to-oppose-i-m/)

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> [It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/it-may-be-that-when-we-no-longer-know-what-to-do-we-have-come-to-our/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-past-is-our-definition-we-may-strive-with-good-reason-to-escape/)

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> [Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/urban-conservationists-may-feel-entitled-to-be-unconcerned-about-food/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/it-may-be-that-when-we-no-longer-know-which-way-to-go-we-have-begun/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/nature-is-always-trying-to-tell-us-that-we-are-not-so-superior-or/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/so-it-is-that-the-life-force-may-take-possession-of-a-man-so-that-in/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/a-teacher-s-major-contribution-may-pop-out-anonymuosly-in-the-life-of/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/men-may-dam-it-and-say-that-they-have-made-a-lake-but-it-will-still/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/no-matter-how-much-one-may-love-the-world-as-a-whole-one-can-live/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/we-need-to-confront-honestly-the-issue-of-scale-you-may-need-a-large/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/you-have-been-given-questions-to-which-you-cannot-be-given-answers/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-question-before-me-now-that-i-am-old-is-not-how-to-be-dead-which/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/that-we-should-have-an-agriculture-based-as-much-on-petroleum-as-the/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/akin-to-the-idea-that-time-is-money-is-the-concept-less-spoken-but-as/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/a-teacher-s-major-contribution-may-pop-out-anonymously-in-the-life-of/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/however-destructive-may-be-the-policies-of-the-government-and-the/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/we-could-say-that-the-human-race-is-a-great-coauthorship-in-which-we/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/our-politics-and-science-have-never-mastered-the-fact-that-people/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-assumption-is-that-people-so-ignorant-and-thoughtless-and-silly/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Without a complex knowledge of one's place and without the faithfulness to one's place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/without-a-complex-knowledge-of-one-s-place-and-without-the/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/to-be-well-used-creatures-and-places-must-be-used-sympathetically/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-environmental-crisis-has-happened-because-the-human-household-or/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/from-a-human-point-of-view-the-difference-between-the-mind-of-a-human/)

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> [You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/you-may-say-that-i-am-just-another-outdated-old-man-complaining-about/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/this-i-thought-is-what-is-meant-by-thy-will-be-done-in-the-lord-s/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/there-are-it-seems-two-muses-the-muse-of-inspiration-who-gives-us/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/during-the-last-17-years-i-have-been-working-at-the-restoration-of-a/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/and-having-thoughtlessly-polluted-our-streams-and-rivers-we-have-seen/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [“The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-peace-of-wild-things-when-despair-for-the-world-grows-in-me-and-i/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/as-i-age-in-the-world-it-will-rise-and-spread-and-be-for-this-place/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-sense-of-it-may-come-with-watching-a-flock-of-cedar-waxwings/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [You've got to reach towards a better language, and you're not going to make it up from scratch; you've got to reach…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/you-ve-got-to-reach-towards-a-better-language-and-you-re-not-going-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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## Other authors on May

## More by Wendell Berry

> [During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/during-the-last-17-years-i-have-been-working-at-the-restoration-of-a/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/like-the-water-of-a-deep-stream-love-is-always-too-much-we-did-not/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/to-husband-is-to-use-with-care-to-keep-to-save-to-make-last-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-two-families-sundered-in-the-ruin-of-a-friendship-were-united/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-living-can-t-quit-living-because-the-world-has-turned-terrible/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-knew-a-man-who-in-the-age-of-chain-saws-went-right-on-cutting-his/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-concept-of-country-homeland-dwelling-place-becomes-simplified-as/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/a-community-is-the-mental-and-spiritual-condition-of-knowing-that-the/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/that-we-can-prescribe-the-terms-of-our-own-success-that-we-can-live/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-mind-that-comes-to-rest-is-tended-in-ways-that-it-cannot-intend/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-mercy-of-the-world-is-time-time-does-not-stop-for-love-but-it/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-soil-is-the-great-connector-of-our-lives-the-source-and/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-dislike-the-thought-that-some-animal-has-been-made-miserable-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/laughter-is-immeasurable-be-joyful/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/these-are-people-who-are-capable-of-devotion-public-devotion-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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                        "text": "From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful; from the point of view of the infinite ignorance that surrounds us, the difference is not impressive. Indeed, from that point of view, the goat may have the better mind, for he is more congenially adapted to his place, and he would not endanger his species or his planet for the sake of an idea.",
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                        "text": "You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.",
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                        "text": "This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.",
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                        "text": "There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say, 'It is yet more difficult than you thought.' It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.",
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                        "text": "During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still visible, and this year it has provided abundant pasture, more than in any year since we have owned it. But to make it as good as it is now has taken 17 years. If I had been a millionaire or if my family had been starving, it would still have taken 17 years. It can be better than it is now, but that will take longer. For it to live fully in its own responsibility, as it did before bad use ran it down, may take hundreds of years.",
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                        "text": "And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water. I am sure that some will say that a rapidly growing market for water is \"good for the economy,\" and most of us are still affluent enough to pay the cost. Nevertheless, it is a considerable cost that we are now paying for drinkable water, which we once had in plentiful supply at little cost or none at all. And the increasing of the cost suggests that the time may come when the cost will be unaffordable.",
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                        "text": "“The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”",
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                        "text": "As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of its winds. I have made myself a dream to dream of its rising, that has gentled my nights. Let me desire and wish well the life these trees may live when I no longer rise in the mornings to be pleased with the green of them shining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them.",
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