--- title: "18 Wendell Berry Quotes by 12 authors" description: "Browse 18 Wendell Berry quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Wendell Berry sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d09/samin-nosrat-5057_agriculture_i-always-turn-to-wendell-berry-for-inspi_2623132.jpg" --- > [I always turn to Wendell Berry for inspiration on food, community, agriculture, and, well, just being a human.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samin-nosrat/i-always-turn-to-wendell-berry-for-inspiration-on-food-community/) [Samin Nosrat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samin-nosrat/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d09/samin-nosrat-5057_agriculture_i-always-turn-to-wendell-berry-for-inspi_2623132.jpg) > [“Modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. Wendell Berry”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/modern-ignorance-is-in-people-s-assumption-that-they-can-outsmart/) [Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c5/wendell-berry-236_ignorance_modern-ignorance-is-in-people-s-assumpti_692869.jpg) > [“Wendell Berry warned, “It is easy . . . to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tish-harrison-warren/wendell-berry-warned-it-is-easy-to-imagine-that-the-next-great/) [Tish Harrison Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tish-harrison-warren/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80b/tish-harrison-warren-12694_computers_wendell-berry-warned-it-is-easy-to-imagi_1247422.jpg) > [“We can start work we won’t see the end of. “Plant sequoias,” urges Wendell Berry:      Put your faith in the two inches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-christopher-smith/we-can-start-work-we-won-t-see-the-end-of-plant-sequoias-urges/) [C. Christopher Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-christopher-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6a/c-christopher-smith-40090_art-work_we-can-start-work-we-won-t-see-the-end-o_2542388.jpg) > [“Fasting is a spiritual exercise whose purpose is to subject the body to the liberating yoke of Jesus. As Wendell Berry puts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-dreher/fasting-is-a-spiritual-exercise-whose-purpose-is-to-subject-the-body/) [Rod Dreher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-dreher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/072/rod-dreher-13031_fasting_fasting-is-a-spiritual-exercise-whose-pu_3176963.jpg) > [“We disdain limits. Wendell Berry warned, “It is easy . . . to imagine that the next great division of the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tish-harrison-warren/we-disdain-limits-wendell-berry-warned-it-is-easy-to-imagine-that-the/) [Tish Harrison Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tish-harrison-warren/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c52/tish-harrison-warren-12694_computers_we-disdain-limits-wendell-berry-warned-i_197143.jpg) > [“If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/if-the-environmental-crisis-is-ultimately-a-crisis-of-character-as/) [Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-pollan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb7/michael-pollan-408_climate_if-the-environmental-crisis-is-ultimatel_955082.png) > [“Eaters must understand,” Wendell Berry writes, “that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/eaters-must-understand-wendell-berry-writes-that-eating-takes-place/) [Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/592/barbara-kingsolver-200_eating_eaters-must-understand-wendell-berry-wri_1989671.png) > [Not only do I recommend Wendell Berry to anyone who will talk to me for more than seven seconds, but I buy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-offerman/not-only-do-i-recommend-wendell-berry-to-anyone-who-will-talk-to-me/) [Nick Offerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-offerman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4fc/nick-offerman-2326_berries_not-only-do-i-recommend-wendell-berry-to_520116.png) > [THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-wild-rose-by-wendell-berry-sometimes-hidden-from-me-in-daily/) [Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/985/wendell-berry-236_berries_the-wild-rose-by-wendell-berry-sometimes_637921.jpg) > [“To go into the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-bernhard/to-go-into-the-dark-with-a-light-is-to-know-the-light-to-know-the/) [Toni Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-bernhard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e0/toni-bernhard-51863_dark_to-go-into-the-dark-with-a-light-is-to-k_2092771.jpg) > [I first read Wendell Berry's short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-offerman/i-first-read-wendell-berry-s-short-story-collections-fidelity-and/) [Nick Offerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-offerman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/nick-offerman-2326_berries_i-first-read-wendell-berry-s-short-story_3089759.png) > [“Eating is an agricultural act," Wendell Berry famously wrote, by which he meant that we are not just passive consumers of food…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/eating-is-an-agricultural-act-wendell-berry-famously-wrote-by-which/) [Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-pollan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55e/michael-pollan-408_food_eating-is-an-agricultural-act-wendell-be_2411763.jpg) > [“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/eating-is-an-agricultural-act-as-wendell-berry-famously-said-it-is/) [Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-pollan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39a/michael-pollan-408_eating_eating-is-an-agricultural-act-as-wendell_1761202.png) > [“For what is the environmental crisis, if not a crisis of the way we live? The Big Problem is nothing more or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/for-what-is-the-environmental-crisis-if-not-a-crisis-of-the-way-we/) [Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-pollan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/michael-pollan-408_action_for-what-is-the-environmental-crisis-if_2412172.jpg) > [It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-sweet/it-would-not-do-for-the-consumer-to-know-that-the-hamburger-she-is/) [Leonard Sweet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-sweet/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e71/leonard-sweet-10435_animal_it-would-not-do-for-the-consumer-to-know_293758.png) > [“Increasingly, progressive voices in the media are shining a spotlight on the need for new businesses that serve both entrepreneurs and local…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-nader/increasingly-progressive-voices-in-the-media-are-shining-a-spotlight/) [Ralph Nader](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-nader/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b8/ralph-nader-1783_business_increasingly-progressive-voices-in-the-m_2276774.png) > [“Wendell Berry’s definition: “If the word community is to mean or amount to anything, it must refer to a place (in its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-votava/wendell-berry-s-definition-if-the-word-community-is-to-mean-or-amount/) [Mark Votava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-votava/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bf/mark-votava-61051_community_wendell-berry-s-definition-if-the-word-c_769513.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/wendell-berry/#itemlist", "name": "Wendell Berry Quotes", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I always turn to Wendell Berry for inspiration on food, community, agriculture, and, well, just being a human.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Samin Nosrat" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samin-nosrat/i-always-turn-to-wendell-berry-for-inspiration-on-food-community/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d09/samin-nosrat-5057_agriculture_i-always-turn-to-wendell-berry-for-inspi_2623132.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d09/samin-nosrat-5057_agriculture_i-always-turn-to-wendell-berry-for-inspi_2623132.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d09/samin-nosrat-5057_agriculture_i-always-turn-to-wendell-berry-for-inspi_2623132.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I always turn to Wendell Berry for inspiration on food, community, agriculture, and, well, just being a human.” — Samin Nosrat", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. 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Suddenly you flare again in my sight A wild rose at the edge of the thicket where yesterday there was only shade And I am blessed and choose again, That which I chose before.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wendell Berry" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-wild-rose-by-wendell-berry-sometimes-hidden-from-me-in-daily/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/985/wendell-berry-236_berries_the-wild-rose-by-wendell-berry-sometimes_637921.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/985/wendell-berry-236_berries_the-wild-rose-by-wendell-berry-sometimes_637921.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/985/wendell-berry-236_berries_the-wild-rose-by-wendell-berry-sometimes_637921.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you…” — Wendell Berry", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“To go into the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings. —WENDELL BERRY A”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Toni Bernhard" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-bernhard/to-go-into-the-dark-with-a-light-is-to-know-the-light-to-know-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e0/toni-bernhard-51863_dark_to-go-into-the-dark-with-a-light-is-to-k_2092771.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e0/toni-bernhard-51863_dark_to-go-into-the-dark-with-a-light-is-to-k_2092771.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e0/toni-bernhard-51863_dark_to-go-into-the-dark-with-a-light-is-to-k_2092771.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To go into the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. 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Depending on how we spend them, our food dollars can either go to support a food industry devoted to quantity and convenience and \"value\" or they can nourish a food chain organized around values--values like quality and health. Yes, shopping this way takes more money and effort, but as soon as you begin to treat that expenditure not just as shopping but also as a kind of vote--a vote for health in the largest sense--food no longer seems like the smartest place to economize.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Pollan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/eating-is-an-agricultural-act-wendell-berry-famously-wrote-by-which/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55e/michael-pollan-408_food_eating-is-an-agricultural-act-wendell-be_2411763.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55e/michael-pollan-408_food_eating-is-an-agricultural-act-wendell-be_2411763.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55e/michael-pollan-408_food_eating-is-an-agricultural-act-wendell-be_2411763.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Eating is an agricultural act,\" Wendell Berry famously wrote, by which he meant that we are not just passive…” — Michael Pollan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world - and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating industrially, which is to say eating in ignorance, are fleeting. Many people today seem erfectly content eating at the end of an industrial food chain, without a thought in the world; this book is probably not for them.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Pollan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/eating-is-an-agricultural-act-as-wendell-berry-famously-said-it-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39a/michael-pollan-408_eating_eating-is-an-agricultural-act-as-wendell_1761202.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39a/michael-pollan-408_eating_eating-is-an-agricultural-act-as-wendell_1761202.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39a/michael-pollan-408_eating_eating-is-an-agricultural-act-as-wendell_1761202.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. 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In our yards and kitchens and minds.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Pollan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/for-what-is-the-environmental-crisis-if-not-a-crisis-of-the-way-we/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/michael-pollan-408_action_for-what-is-the-environmental-crisis-if_2412172.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/michael-pollan-408_action_for-what-is-the-environmental-crisis-if_2412172.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/michael-pollan-408_action_for-what-is-the-environmental-crisis-if_2412172.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For what is the environmental crisis, if not a crisis of the way we live? 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Yes! Magazine is a leading chronicler of independence from the global economy, with features such as “31 Ways to Jump Start the Local Economy,” “Wendell Berry’s 17 Rules for a Sustainable Economy,” “A Resilient Community,” “Small Banks, Radical Vision,” and other numerous stories on how consumers and householders can become producers of energy and food. Epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, in his bestseller The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier, offered both a survey of our nation’s growing economic inequalities and an eloquent argument that such inequalities will lead to increased anxiety, fear, isolation, health failures, and chronic insecurity.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Nader" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-nader/increasingly-progressive-voices-in-the-media-are-shining-a-spotlight/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b8/ralph-nader-1783_business_increasingly-progressive-voices-in-the-m_2276774.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b8/ralph-nader-1783_business_increasingly-progressive-voices-in-the-m_2276774.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b8/ralph-nader-1783_business_increasingly-progressive-voices-in-the-m_2276774.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Increasingly, progressive voices in the media are shining a spotlight on the need for new businesses that…” — Ralph Nader", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 18, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Wendell Berry’s definition: “If the word community is to mean or amount to anything, it must refer to a place (in its natural integrity) and its people. 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