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 love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.” — 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It is possible, as I have learned again and again, to be in one’s place, in such company, wild or domestic, and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the human condition.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“For a long time then I seemed to live by the slender thread of faith, spun out from within me. From this… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and… — 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
