The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because… — 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,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The world is not given by our fathers, but borrowed from our children. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. ... We have been… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard. — 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
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our… — 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
