We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common… — 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
Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that… — 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
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
From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful;… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations,… — 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
Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the… — 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
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
