It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not… — 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,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The world doesn't stop because you are in love or in mourning or in need of time to think. And so when… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We had, you could say, everything but money -- Grandmam and I did, anyhow. We had each other and our work, and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“There is time, and then there is timelessness. And if you're lucky, and if you can be still enough, observant enough, you… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“For what seemed a long time Mat knelt there with his father's dead wrist in his hand, while his mind arrived and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Back there in the beginning, as I see now, my life was all time and almost no memory. Though I knew early… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over;… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“He been a good man always, I think, but this tenderness was new. It was the tenderness of an old man who… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I lost no time, of course, in telling him about the book I wanted to write. Not, by then, to my surprise,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“And there is no use in saying that if we can invent the nuclear bomb and fly to the moon, we can… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I could not have desired her enough. She was a living soul and could be loved forever. Like every living creature, she… — 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
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
“To both the racist and the puritan, childhood is not a time of life that we grow out of, as the life… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I imagine the dead waking, dazed, into a shadowless light in which they know themselves altogether for the first time. It is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken by as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Over a long time, the coming and passing of several generations, the old farm had settled into its patterns and cycles of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“You think you will never forget any of this, you will remember it always just the way it was. But you can't… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“What marriage offers - and what fidelity is meant to protect - is the possibility of moments when what we have chosen… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Christ did not descend from the cross except into the grave. And why not otherwise? Wouldn’t it have put fine comical expressions… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“My vision of the gathered church that had come to me... had been replaced by a vision of the gathered community. What… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“When people learn to preserve the richness of the land that God has given them and the rights to enjoy the fruits… — 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
