The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because… — 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… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You've got to reach towards a better language, and you're not going to make it up from scratch; you've got to reach… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world. — 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
As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When there are enough people on the land to use it but not enough to husband it, then the wildness of the… — 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
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t… — 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
