Way Quotes by Wendell Berry

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that…

— Wendell Berry

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

The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a…

— Wendell Berry

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

— Wendell Berry

But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has…

— Wendell Berry

They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they…

— Wendell Berry

and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century…

— Wendell Berry

I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history.…

— Wendell Berry

If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly…

— Wendell Berry

Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their…

— Wendell Berry

The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable… It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and…

— Wendell Berry

There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers,…

— Wendell Berry

There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization,…

— Wendell Berry

Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep…

— Wendell Berry

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to…

— Wendell Berry

The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be…

— Wendell Berry

I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of…

— Wendell Berry

I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved…

— Wendell Berry

There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when…

— Wendell Berry

We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the…

— Wendell Berry

The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,…

— Wendell Berry

If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close…

— Wendell Berry

To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human.…

— Wendell Berry

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the…

— Wendell Berry

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when…

— Wendell Berry

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.

— Wendell Berry

You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray…

— Wendell Berry

The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying…

— Wendell Berry

Go with your love to the fields. Lie down in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what…

— Wendell Berry

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

Obviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter and comforter of profitable inquiries, then Christians, regardless of their…

— Wendell Berry

The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another…

— Wendell Berry