“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In relation to the natural world, the pleasure of Americans can be destructive in the same way that their work has already… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“While we live our bodies are moving particles of the earth, joined inextricably both to the soil and to the bodies of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. ... We have been… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both directions. To farm well requires an elaborate… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“If we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I will purge my mind of the airy claims of church and state, and observe the ancient wisdom of tribesman and peasant,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the… — 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
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions.… — 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
