“If you could do it, I suppose, it would be a good idea to live your life in a straight line -… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The most exemplary nature is that of the topsoil. It is very Christ-like in its passivity and beneficence, and in the penetrating… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“You have consented to time and it is winter. The country seems bigger, for you can see through the bare trees. There… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I whisper over to myself the way of loss, the names of the dead. One by one, we lose our loved ones,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When despair for the world grows in me... I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every… — 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
When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time. It does not accept that limit. Of all that we feel and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“What can turn us from this deserted future, back into the sphere of our being, the great dance that joins us to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Here on the river I have known peace and beauty such as I never knew in any other place. There is always… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Action can only be understood in relation to place; only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in… — 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
