Men Quotes by Wendell Berry

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

— Wendell Berry

It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.

— Wendell Berry

I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

— Wendell Berry

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

— Wendell Berry

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

— Wendell Berry

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

— Wendell Berry

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the…

— Wendell Berry

A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits…

— Wendell Berry

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings…

— Wendell Berry

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for…

— Wendell Berry

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his…

— Wendell Berry

I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers /…

— Wendell Berry

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does…

— Wendell Berry

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed…

— Wendell Berry

Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors…

— Wendell Berry

When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from…

— Wendell Berry

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to…

— Wendell Berry

Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep…

— Wendell Berry

I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed…

— Wendell Berry

I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might…

— Wendell Berry

If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see…

— Wendell Berry

You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see,…

— Wendell Berry

Perhaps it is to prepare to hear some day the music of the spheres that I am always turning my ears to…

— Wendell Berry

There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when…

— Wendell Berry

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by…

— Wendell Berry

The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the…

— Wendell Berry

The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road…

— Wendell Berry