World Quotes by Wendell Berry

“The world had become pretty generally Ceceliafied.”

— Wendell Berry

The world is whole beyond human knowing.

— Wendell Berry

The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

— Wendell Berry

For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

— Wendell Berry

The world is not given by our fathers, but borrowed from our children.

— Wendell Berry

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

— Wendell Berry

The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.

— Wendell Berry

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it…

— Wendell Berry

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help…

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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief,…

— Wendell Berry

It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and…

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A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food…

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I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.

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It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable…

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Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world…

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It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to…

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What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and…

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I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our…

— Wendell Berry

The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy…

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And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a…

— Wendell Berry

Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which…

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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see,…

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... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family…

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I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given…

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The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies…

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Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the…

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“The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least…

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If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see…

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I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created…

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Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because…

— Wendell Berry

There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our…

— Wendell Berry

The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.

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Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to…

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The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.

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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I…

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It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in…

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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

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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…

— Wendell Berry

When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of…

— Wendell Berry