What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But politicians quickly learned to pacify the liberals by passing laws and regulations that, to pacify the conservatives, would not be enforced.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“When the industrial colonialists and the politicians agree to sacrifice a region to a single economic goal, they inevitably sacrifice the people… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government,… — 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
We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“This economy is based upon consumption, which ultimately serves, not the ordinary consumers, but a tiny class of excessively wealthy people for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To the extent that we consume, in our present circumstances, we are guilty. To the extent that we guilty consumers are conservationists,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have us believe that we can… — 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
“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
“We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“To think of food as a weapon, or of a weapon as food, may give an illusory security and wealth to a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary:… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“There should be no relenting in our efforts to influence politics and politicians. But in the name of honesty and sanity we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign… — 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
