You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities. — 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
It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve. — 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
Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice. — 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
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
The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this. — 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
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
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
A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other… — 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
The people who benefit from this state of affairs have been at pains to convince us that the agricultural practices and policies… — 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
The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for… — 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
I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved… — 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
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
The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be? — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security they cannot derive from a national or a global… — 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
People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays… — 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
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