Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see,… — 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
A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other… — 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
