During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed… — 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… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When there are enough people on the land to use it but not enough to husband it, then the wildness of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits. — 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
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from… — 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
Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying,… — 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
