Mind Quotes by Wendell Berry

The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed

— Wendell Berry

Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.

— Wendell Berry

Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.

— Wendell Berry

“...the intimacy the mind makes with the place it awakens in.”

— Wendell Berry

When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.

— Wendell Berry

“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it…

— Wendell Berry

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

— Wendell Berry

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

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

Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to…

— 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

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

— Wendell Berry

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

— Wendell Berry

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that…

— Wendell Berry

“Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land,…

— Wendell Berry

We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations,…

— Wendell Berry

“He been a good man always, I think, but this tenderness was new. It was the tenderness of an old man who…

— Wendell Berry

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the…

— Wendell Berry

Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice.…

— Wendell Berry

The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things,…

— Wendell Berry

From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful;…

— Wendell Berry

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the…

— Wendell Berry

We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have…

— Wendell Berry

“He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and…

— Wendell Berry

It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in…

— Wendell Berry

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

Go with your love to the fields. Lie down in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what…

— Wendell Berry

“The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

— Wendell Berry