What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food? — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We had, you could say, everything but money -- Grandmam and I did, anyhow. We had each other and our work, and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“When people learn to preserve the richness of the land that God has given them and the rights to enjoy the fruits… — 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
“Virtually all of us now share with the most powerful industrialists their remoteness from actual experience of the actual world. Like them,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“And there is no use in saying that if we can invent the nuclear bomb and fly to the moon, we can… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“This economy is based upon consumption, which ultimately serves, not the ordinary consumers, but a tiny class of excessively wealthy people for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“For the sake of “job creation,” in Kentucky, and in other backward states, we have lavished public money on corporations that come… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken by as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Children learned about the adult world by participating in it in a small way, by doing a little work and making a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult… — 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
