“As the connections have been broken by the fragmentation and isolation of work, they can be restored by restoring the wholeness of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“One thing work gives is the joy of not working, a minute here or there when I stand and only breathe, receiving… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But is work something we have a right to escape? And can we escape it with impunity? We are probably the first… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“As Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials, and other people we are… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The significance - and ultimately the quality - of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most… — 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
