“In relation to the natural world, the pleasure of Americans can be destructive in the same way that their work has already… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of… — 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
“...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what… — 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
Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Obviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter and comforter of profitable inquiries, then Christians, regardless of their… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and… — 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
“Let me outline briefly as I can what seem to me the characteristics of these opposite kinds of mind. I conceive a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The divine mandate to use the world justly and charitably, then, defines every person's moral predicament as that of a steward. But… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family… — 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
