I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is… — 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
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
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies… — 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
It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested 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
It is a fact that the entire Kentucky River system, which the central part of the state complacently depends upon for its… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact… — 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
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,… — 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
