“Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“A music attends the things of the earth. To sense that music is to be near the possibility of health and joy.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I’ve come down from the sky like some damned ghost, delayed too long…To the abandoned fields the trees returned and grew. They… — 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
Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“What marriage offers - and what fidelity is meant to protect - is the possibility of moments when what we have chosen… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The earth, which we all have in common, is our deepest bond, and our behavior toward it cannot help but be an… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the human condition.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The most exemplary nature is that of the topsoil. It is very Christ-like in its passivity and beneficence, and in the penetrating… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“If [the loss of fertility of the soil and the loss of soil as a renewable resource] does happen, we are familiar… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of… — 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
We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more… — 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
