You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough — 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
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the entire Kentucky River system, which the central part of the state complacently depends upon for its… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water.… — 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
