I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting with farmers. There is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“To owe what you had not yet earned, to have to work to earn what you had already spent, was a personal… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“How to be a Poet (to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The forsaking of all others is a keeping of faith, not just with the chosen one, but with the ones forsaken. The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social weapon in the hands of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue must lead to harmony between one… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“From my college courses and my reading I knew the various names that came at the end of a line of questions… — 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
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
