Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and for each other. It is either that or continue merely to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying… — 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
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
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
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
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
