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title: "32 Way Quotes By Wendell Berry"
description: "32 Way quotes by Wendell Berry. Plus more from Wendell Berry and more Way sayings from other authors."
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> [I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-lack-the-peace-of-simple-things-i-am-never-wholly-in-place-i-find/)

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> [It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/it-may-be-that-when-we-no-longer-know-what-to-do-we-have-come-to-our/)

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> [The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-constructions-of-language-which-is-to-say-the-constructions-of/)

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> [It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/it-may-be-that-when-we-no-longer-know-which-way-to-go-we-have-begun/)

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> [One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/one-of-the-most-important-resources-that-a-garden-makes-available-for/)

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> [The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-rule-acknowledged-or-not-seems-to-be-that-if-we-have-great-power/)

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> [A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/a-change-of-heart-or-of-values-without-a-practice-is-only-another/)

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> [But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/but-the-sower-going-forth-to-sow-sets-foot-into-time-to-come-the/)

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> [Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/men-may-dam-it-and-say-that-they-have-made-a-lake-but-it-will-still/)

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> [I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-prayed-like-a-man-walking-in-a-forest-at-night-feeling-his-way-with/)

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> [The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-law-is-meant-to-work-for-justice-but-people-who-know-themselves/)

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> [You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/you-mustn-t-wish-for-another-life-you-mustn-t-want-to-be-somebody/)

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> [The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-wrecking-ball-is-characteristic-of-our-way-with-materials-we/)

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> [Go with your love to the fields. Lie down in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/go-with-your-love-to-the-fields-lie-down-in-the-shade-rest-your-head/)

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> [Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/good-farmers-who-take-seriously-their-duties-as-stewards-of-creation/)

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> [The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-world-is-so-full-and-abundant-it-is-like-a-pregnant-woman/)

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> [We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/we-could-say-that-the-human-race-is-a-great-coauthorship-in-which-we/)

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> [The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-economy-is-still-substantially-that-of-the-fur-trade-still-based/)

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> [If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/if-on-the-other-hand-conservationists-are-willing-to-insist-on-having/)

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> [I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-began-to-know-my-story-then-like-everybody-s-it-was-going-to-be-the/)

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> [I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-think-of-the-old-slavery-and-of-the-way-the-economy-has-now/)

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> [There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/there-are-endless-ways-to-amuse-oneself-and-be-idle-and-most-of-them/)

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> [and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/and-in-some-of-the-people-of-the-town-and-community-surrounding-it/)

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> [They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/they-will-grow-deliver-and-cook-your-food-for-you-and-just-like-your/)

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> [I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-like-the-way-that-the-history-of-the-tree-shapes-the-tree-there-s/)

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> [To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/to-accept-that-there-is-nothing-to-do-is-to-despair-it-is-to-become/)

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> [Obviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter and comforter of profitable inquiries, then Christians, regardless of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/obviously-if-christianity-is-going-to-survive-as-more-than-a/)

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> [If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/if-you-re-a-writer-and-you-are-at-all-inclined-to-speak-as-a/)

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> [Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/geese-appear-high-over-us-pass-and-the-sky-closes-abandon-as-in-love/)

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> [The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable… It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-two-ideas-justice-and-vocation-are-inseparable-it-is-by-way-of/)

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> [There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/there-s-a-world-of-difference-between-that-information-to-which-we/)

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> [There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/there-are-it-seems-two-muses-the-muse-of-inspiration-who-gives-us/)

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## Other authors on Way

## More by Wendell Berry

> [During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/during-the-last-17-years-i-have-been-working-at-the-restoration-of-a/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/like-the-water-of-a-deep-stream-love-is-always-too-much-we-did-not/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/to-husband-is-to-use-with-care-to-keep-to-save-to-make-last-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-two-families-sundered-in-the-ruin-of-a-friendship-were-united/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-living-can-t-quit-living-because-the-world-has-turned-terrible/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-knew-a-man-who-in-the-age-of-chain-saws-went-right-on-cutting-his/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-concept-of-country-homeland-dwelling-place-becomes-simplified-as/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/a-community-is-the-mental-and-spiritual-condition-of-knowing-that-the/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/that-we-can-prescribe-the-terms-of-our-own-success-that-we-can-live/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-mind-that-comes-to-rest-is-tended-in-ways-that-it-cannot-intend/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-mercy-of-the-world-is-time-time-does-not-stop-for-love-but-it/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-soil-is-the-great-connector-of-our-lives-the-source-and/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-dislike-the-thought-that-some-animal-has-been-made-miserable-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/laughter-is-immeasurable-be-joyful/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/these-are-people-who-are-capable-of-devotion-public-devotion-to/)

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