The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry—between, say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal "peace treaties." We seem not to have thought… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Most people now are looking for a better place, which means that a lot of them will end up in a worse… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Supporters of the war are constantly asking those who oppose it: Why don't you deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“To think of food as a weapon, or of a weapon as food, may give an illusory security and wealth to a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Because by definition they lack any such sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens. — 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
![“[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left hand idle on the chair arm, his right scratching his head, his white hair gleaming in the lamplight. I knew that when he was studying he was thinking, but I did not know what about. Now I have aged…” quote by Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b6/wendell-berry-236_civil-war_my-grandfather-returned-to-what-he-calle_1877401.jpg)
