Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods… — 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
